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Citizens Group Hits Religion Guidelines BOSTON (NC) - The Massa- Massachusetts as evidence that chusetts Citizens for Public "85 per cent of the MassachuPrayer (CPP) has challenged setts electorate" feel they have guidelines for religion in public the right to have prayers in pubschools that were issued by the lic schools. Massachusetts Board of Educa- . The group accused the board tion here. of education of having "com"Religion belongs in our pletely overlooked the heart C1f schools." the CPP said. accusing the matter" in its guidelines, the board of education .of deny- which the CPP declared is "freeing Massachusetts citizens their dom of religion," not freedom right to freedom of religion. of "teachng about religion." The guidelines. generally de"Religion is essentially an afscribed by observers as "neufective experience." .the CPP tral." are only advisory and do claimed. "Religion is not which not have the force of law. They Pope ruled when and how, who suggest that public schools not . . celebrate religious holidays, but teaches what dogma where. and who painted which Madonna." they suggest that religion can be "Once we have firmly reintaught as history, as arts, as a stated freedom or' religion in the study of comparative beliefs. ~ Although there is no mention public classroom, then and not of public prayer in public Tum to Page Two schools in the guidelinE:s.the CPP cited a November referendum on public school prayer in

Challenges Universities To Prove TheirWorth VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI has challenged Catholic Universities to prove that fidelity to God's word and to a Godcentered value system never weakens i n tell i g e nee but strengthens it. "That seems to be the specific witness expected of a Catholic univer..;:~y." the Pope told participants at the second Congress of Catholic University Delegates on Nov. 27.

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The work of the congress. which opened Nov. 20. was scheduled to continue until the end of the month. The Pope noted that mass media have impregnated public opinion with "questions or stands on the basic problems of existence." Here. he said, is where the Catholic university comes in. "At this juncture, you have embarked with men on this passionate pursuit, from which the faith cannot dispense you." _The Pope listed what the world, the people of God, and the bishops need from the Catholic university. . "The world needs to experi, ence a real freedom of. spirit throughout. "The people of God need to find in you witnesses of the faith it professes, and well-in-

formed guides on the road of life. · "The pastors expect your aid ip fulfilling their charge, as it devolves on them to guarantee tbe authenticity of the revealed ,message." i The Pope referred to a "preparatory study" prepared by the universities and by successive committees since the first congress, held four years ago in the African nation of Zaire (the former Belgium Congo). · Without quoting the study, he referred to a section describing ~he essential notes defining a true Catholic university. · "Fidelity to Christ's message as it is transmitted by the Church constitutes the very rea· son for (the Catholic university's) continual effort of study," Pope Paul asserted.

Presidential Commendation For Rev. John R. Foister

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President Richard Nixon has "The White House Washington sent a citation to Rev. John R. November 17, 1972 Foister, assistant pastor of Notre Dear Father Foister, Dame Parish in Fall River and Recently I read a news acchaplain to the Fall River Fire count of your successful efforts Deparmtent. The presidential commenda- ;in persuading a young man to ' tion, also sent to Firefighter Wile ·come down off a bridge after he liam Tavares of Fall River's Res- tht'eatened to jump. Your comcue I, praises the action of priest :passion and cOllcern for this and fit'efighter in an August res- young man undoubtedly percue of an attempted suicide from I suaded him to change his mind and prevented a tragedy. . the Braga Bridge. The letter to Father FoIster · You are to be commended, along with WilHam Tavares, for reads: •the part you played in this dramatic rescue, and I want you to know of my admration for your outstanding humanitarian , concern and your willingness to , be of assistance in an emergency situation. With all good wishes, Sincerely. Richard Nixon." The rescue mentioned, one ot six in which th<e priest was part I in the past five years. was extensively reported in The Anchor in August. On that occason the priest had clmbed to 230 feet over the Taunton River, 100 feet over the roadbed to bring his ministry to the distraUght youth. I

Priest Writes Bill of Rights For Reta rded LOS ANGELES (NC)-A priest who works with "persons with mental retardation" has issued a "bill of rights" affirming their dignity and value as persons. Father Michael Gilsenan. associate director of the Los Angeles . archdiocesan Department of Special Service to the Handicapped. does not speak of "the mentally· retarded" -but of "persons with mental retardation"-with the emphasis on "persons"--in his bill of rights. He speak~ not only from current day-to-day concern for persons with retardation. but also against the lurking threat Tum to Page Three

....................... Clothing Drive Ends Saturday The traditional Thanksgiving Clothing Drive held in all the pari~hes of the Diocese this week. will end the parish -phase on Saturday. On Monday· morning truckers will begin to pick up all packaged clothing from the parishes to send them on to shipping centers. • • • • • • • • « ••••••••••••••

Deplore Episode On Television A California bishop and the , head of the Knights of Columbus have deplored a two-part episode of the CBS-TV program "Maude" that dealt with abortion and va· . sectomy. Bishop Hugh A. Donohoe ot Fresno, Calif., in a letter to Co- .. lumbia Broadcasting System President Frank Stanton, said the , episode "was a very brazen treatment of abortion and vasectomy;' and "openly downgraded the be· lief that there is a moral value in matters ot this kind." John W. McDevitt, ~upreme NEW BEDFORD PARISH CENTENARY: Principals at the lOOth anniversary banquet: knight of the Catholic taternal of St. John the Baptist Parish, New Bedford, held on Sunday night were: Most Rev.: .organization, said in a letter to Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese, who addressed the gathering; Frankl CBS that the episode sbowed a Martin, chairman; Dr. Joao M. H. Themido, Portuguese Ambassador to the United States ,I "shocking irresponsibility" on the who also spoke; Rev. Manuel P. Ferreira, pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish, New Bed-; part of the comedy show's auTum to Page Three ford.

Holy Union Nuns Hold Study Day'

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Forty-five members of the Sisters of the Holy Union met in , Fall River this monht for a day of discernment in conjunction with the on-going Provincial Chapter of the community. The session was opened by Sister Grace Donovan. provincial, and centered on the use of the process of discernment.' a technique developed by the Society of Jesus .which lists pros and cons of ~ statement or course of action. Small group dscussions occupied a major pcrtion of the day and the culminating general session resulted in the formulation of a working statement regarding the function of the chapter. This statement will be discussed within all Holy Union convents. Methods of involving all members of the community in the work of the chapter was a major concern of the group. The day closed with a liturgy celebrated by Rev. Robert Carter of Sacred· Heart parish" Fall . River. He encouraged the community's efforts in its various locaCAPE AREA BALL COMMITTEE: Cape Codders working on- plans for annual tions and apostolates to serve Bishop's Ball include,from left, Miss Ursula Wing, Mrs. Annie Eldridge, Rev. John F. An- . the Church.

BURLINGTON (NC) - Most retired senior citizens spend a winter in: Florida to forget about work. Bl,lt 76-year-old Bishop Robert F. Joyce is going there to forget about retirement. The former head of the statewide diocese of B!1rlingtoil. Vt., has agreed to do parish work to assist Msgr. Rowan Rostatter, .pastor of Assumption .Parish, Pompano aeach. Their mutual friend, Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll of Miami, knew that Msgr. Rostatter needed~ help during the whiter and he invited Bishop Joyce ·to consider the assignment. "I'm lo<;>king forward to the opportunity," the bishop said. "I was in par,ish work from 1923 to 1957. the. year I became bishop." It was while serving"at St. Peter's Patish, Rutland, Vt.• that he was nAmed auxiliary bishop in 1954 to the. late Bishop Edward F. Ryan whom he suc- drews, Buzzards Bay; Mrs. Gilbert J. Noonan, Falmouth. Women are members of decoceeded in 1957. His pastoral work . also includes three 'years as an rations cOInmittee, Father Andrews is 'Cape area director for ball. Army chaplain in World War II..

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He was succeeded in January by' Bishop" John A. Marshall. Since then. Bishop Joyce has Mrs. Michael J. McMahon of Vincent de Paul an.d· to Bishop's Moitoza and Mrs. Edward Franmade his home at St. Joseph's Fall River has been named chair- Charity Ball Headqu~rters, ·no co. Home, Burlington, but has kept man of the hospitality committee Highland Ave., Fall River. Muss. Attleboro area: Mrs. Charles busy, e!?pecially oli weekend min- for the 18th annual Bishop's. 02720, Tel. 676-8943. These Mahan. Mrs. Vincent McGill, istry, replacing 'clergy who were Charity Ball to be held on Fri- names will be accepted until- Mrs. Alfred Travers. Attleboro; ill or on vacation. day evening Jan. 12 at the Lin- Wednesday, Dec. 20. Tickets for Miss Ange!a Medeiros, Seekonk. Last year, on vacation, he as- . coin Park Ballroom, North Dart- this. outstanding . social event The ushers are:· Paul DeLisle. sisted for 10 days at a Delray mouth. Her appointment was an'- may be obtiiined, at' all Catholic Grace. Roland Guay, HenDaniel Beach, Fla. parish. He liked it nounced by Rev. Msgr.Anthouy church rectories. _. I I ry Kitche'n and Daniel Shea of well enough that he has agreed M. Gomes,- diocesan director of Committee Members Fall River; Edward Franco of to' help at Pompano Beach from the social event. Taunton, and. Vito Gerardi, Members of the hospitality Dec. 1 to April 1. The Charity Ball for the beneJames Gleason and Patrick Harfit of the. exceptional and under- . committee include the following: .rington of New Bedford. Nicho'las Fall River area: Mrs. privileged children is in honor of Name Chicago Priest the Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin. Biltcliffe. Mrs. Raymond Boulay. Roman Rota Judge S.T.D.. Bishop of the Roman Mrs. Florence Dore, Mrs. Eugene Schedule First Friday Gagnon, Mrs. Wilfred Garand, VATICAN CITY (NC)-Father Catholic Diocese of Fall River. Mrs. Rudolph Ouellette. New Bedford Vigil Four schools for the exceptional Edward M. Egan, 40, co-chancelEm. Mrs. Arthur Pavao. Mrs. On Friday. Dec. 1. the First. lor of the Chicago archdiocese, children and four summer camps ma Pereira, Mrs~ -Beatrice Vus'~riday of the month, a five-hour for the underprivileged and exhas been named a judge of, the .Sacred Roman Rota, the Vatican ceptional children are benefi- concellos, Miss" Hortlmse Pontes, Vigil of 'prayer will be held at ciaries of the proceeds of the Miss Claire OToole, Miss Ja.c- St. Boniface Church. corner of announced. queline Matthews. ., . Coggeshall and Purchase Streets. The Rota is the ordinary court Charity Ball. New Bedfo~darea: Mrs. There- New Bedford. This will be the Names for the Charity Ball of appeal for marriage and some other cases that are appealed to booklet· may be submitted to sa Frenette. Mrs. james Hayden, fifth in a continuing series of the Vatican, from lower Church members of the Ball Committee, North Dartmouth;· Mrs. Jean- Vigils to be held at several parishes throughout the area. members" of the Council of Cath.. nette Keny'ori,Fairhave~. . courts. olic Women and Society of St. Taunton area: Mrs. Albert G. The purpose of the vigils is to The appoi~tment 'follows a trapray for peace in the world and dition of more than 30 years of . to honor the Sacred Hearts of naming an American as one of '1.. . . Jesus and Mary. The Vigil will the more than 20 Rota judges. begin.. with a Mass of the Most Born in Oak Park, Ill.• April Sacred Heart of Jesus at 8 P.M. 2, 1932, Father Egan earned a VATICAN OITY (NC~Ko Old Testament will be completed bachelor's degree in philosophy Included in the evening' are from St. Mary of the Lake Sem- rea's Cardinal Stephan ~im de- next year...• he said. exposition of the Blessed' Sacrainary in Mundelein. Ill. and a scribed the Church in communist The Korean cardinal did not ment. rosary. holy hour and licentiate in theology at the Gre- North Korea as "truly the . speak of tension bet~een the Benediction. The vigil will end gorian University in Rome.' He Church of silence." Church and the South Korean with a Mass in honor of the Imwas ordained in Rome on Dec. "Concerning the North. we' government. But in answer, to a maculate Heart of Mary at mid15, 1957. know nothing". the' archbishop , question about the Church's in- night. Coffee will be available of Seoul detlared in an interV'iew fluence on current negotiations during the evening. All are inover Vatican Radio. for lt~1111·:t-ing families separated vited to come. You may stay for Ne~rology He described the Catholic by the Korean armistice line hl~ the whole evening or just a part DEC. 8 of it. For further information. Church's situation in South' said: Rev. John f. Broderick, 1940, Korea as "in general very good." "We can only pray f()r' thei:r please contact Father Price at 992-0482. Pastor, St. Mary, South DartIn support· of this he cited' suc·cess. As a Church lit is very mOllth. . difficult to do anylthing more, South Korea's two regional seminaries with' their 600 'seminari- and we hope that there I will be DEC. II greater collaboration in the D. D. Wilfred C. Rev. Edward. L. Killigrew, 1959, ' ·ans, a "good number of voca- future between thegov~rnmen1: tions to the Sisterhood," and a Pastor, St. Kilian. New Bedford. and the Church." Sullivan Dri.scoll steady if slow growth in apostolic activ·ity by the laity. .,....'"HH""",,"IIIIII""""""'I1""""""""'"111'1<""."',,""""_......_ FUNERAL HOME Harvest Cardinal Kim reported that.reTHE ANCHOR 206 WINTER STREET lations between Catholics and He who sows courtesy reaps Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River. Protestants' in South Korea are friendship, and he who plants Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 FALL RIVER, MASS. Highland Avenue. 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Board Guidelines Continued from Page .One before. there is time and place' to ponder improvement in our practice of public teaching about religion." the CPP said. The CPP pointed out that in Massachusetts' Nov. 7 referendum on school prayer the unofficial tally of 85 per .cent in favor indicated the strongest consensus on any. single issue among the state's voters. The Massachusetts Catholic Conferen.ce favored sj:hool prayer in the referendum. While the CPP stressed that its real purpose was· the reinstatement of prayer iri public schools through a constitutional amendment, it urged that in the meantime the education Qoard's guidelines be withdrawn. and new guidelines be drawn up reflecting "the will of Ml1-ssachusetts as expressed so overwhelmingly on 7 November 1972."

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Deplores Episode on Television Continued from Page One thors, producers, telecasters and sponsors. A spokesman for CBS-TV said there would be no public response to criticisms of the episode, broadcast on Nov. 14 and 21. Instead, she said, letters would be sent to those contacting CBS about the show. The spokesman- said the first part of the epIsode, entitled "Maude's Dilemma," showed the 47-year-old Maude discovering she was pregnant and wondering what to do. Also in the first, part of the show, said the spokesman, Maude's husband, Walter, is considering getting a vasectomy as a result of his wife's pregnancy. In the second part of the episode, according to the spokesman, Walter decides against the operation while it is implied that Maude will obtain the abortion. Veteran actors Beatrice Arthur and Bill Macy play the central characters 9f the program, telecast 'Tuesday at 8 p.m. (EST). In his letter, Bishop Donohoe' declared: "The program was a very brazen treatment of abortion and vasectomy. It was even more reprehensible since it was shown at 8 p.m., a time when many young people and children were viewing television." The prelate's letter also stated: "Under the guise of a 'family program', the program openly downgraded the belief that there is" a moral value in matters of this kind.

"While we cannot compel others to believe as we do, we do have the right to demand that our beliefs are not ridiculed' as was done on that program." The bishop said he was urging the people of his diocese to join his protest "and to alert the sta'tions 'and commercial sponsors involved of our indignation." In his letter, McDevitt declared: , '''Killing of the unborn is not a laughing matter. All the cliche counsel on how easy and simple it is to kill the unborn-'Uke having the dentist extract a bad tooth'-is not funny either. Should the advocates of permissive abortion desire to dispense their inducements to barbarity, they should not be given the medium of a popular television program at a prime children's viewing hour." His correspondence also asserted: "While controversial subjects can be aired, responsibility to the public requires a format whereby both sides of the issue will be given a fair hearing at the same time. That responsibility was not evidenced in the 'Maude' tragedy. Rather what was in evidence was a shocking irresponsibility by the authors, producers, telecasters and sponsors of the program." The CBS-TV spokesman acknowledged the network had received criticism,of the "Maude" episode. "But we also received calls congratulating us for the show, not just complaints," she said.

Newm'an Campus Ministry Holds 'Thomas, Merton F'estivals' CLEVELAND (NC) - F i v e Ohio college campuses are holding Thomas Merton Festivals sponsored by the Newman Campus Ministry during November and December. The idea for the festival came when Father George Simons of the Cleveland diocese attended a monastic living experiment last year. He noticed that Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk who wrote numerous spiritual books, was the most popular author for community reading> Father Simons began to notice that many People were reading Merton, including a: large number. of college stude.nts. He said: "It hit me that l\IIerton speaks the language of young 'people who find his contemplation a source of meaning :for life. Yet he professes Christianity from a solid point of view, from the respectability of monasticism. "There are a lot of young people who are concerned about the development of the whole life. Everyone has heard of the Jesus Freaks and Pentecostals but few路 are aware that other forms of

Christmas Pageant Stays in School WESTF'IELD (NC)-Opponents of a high school Christmas pageant here in New Jersey lost a court battle because, after seven yeats of controversy, they waited too long before filing suit. Federal District Judge Frederick Lacey cietd the late filing of the suit when he refused to grant an injunction against the traditional pageant. He said the oppoents had failed to show that it was vital that immediate action be taken.

Advent Evening In New Bedford An Advent evening of prayer and study is scheduled for Sunday, December 10, at 7:15 in the Hall of Our Lady of the Assumption Church, New Bedford. The evening is sponsored by the Southern New Bedford Cooperative Program for Adult Religious Education, and will have as its theme, "Emmanuel, God With Us." Priests of tl"c parishes in that area of New Bedford will present the study-discussion-slide program and the evening will close with Mass. Priest-directors of the CCD program in each parish may be contacted for further information but all adults of Greater New Bedford are invited to participate in the evening of recollection.

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EVENING OF RECOLLECTION: Planning for an Ad~ vent evening of prayer and study in New Bedford are, left to' right, Rev. Michel G. Methot of St. Lawrence Church; Rev. Ambrose Forgit, SS.CC., of Our Lady of Assumption! Rev. Joseph D. Maguire of St. James, and Rev. Edwarq Correia of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. : I

'Terrible Reality' Devil ,Is Public Enemy Number One, Pope Paul Asserts VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI gave the devil his due and then some at a general audience Nov. 15.

serious spirituality are. jU!!t as important, that quietness' as well In his address Pope Paul reas shouting has something to affirmed the ancient Christian say.'; The more people he met who tea.ching of a personal devil or were reading Merton, Father Si- spirit of evil. mons said, the more he was con"With the existence of the vinced that "the time is now" devil," the Pope declared, "evil for a real festival celebrating is not only a I~ck (of good) but Merton and what he has to offer also a real force. to those searching for meaning in "It (the devil) is a living, spirlife. itual being, which is perverted He flew to Kentucky, to the and which perverts. (It is) a terBellarmine-Ursuline Coil e g e rible reality and mysterious and Thomas Merton Studies Center, fearfuL" to find out what kind of material The Pope earlier this year rewas available. " ferred in another speech to the Course for Credit "smoke of Satan" which seemed As a result of Father Simons' to be seeping through the work the festivals, believed to be Church today, obviously referthe first of their kind in the ring to the tensions in renewal country, will feature tape record- following the Second Vatican ings by Merton reading his po- Council. etry and talking about his ideas At his Nov. 15 audience Pope on peace and the meaning of life. Paul made it clear he was not Father Simons said that a film using metaphorical' language and one tape are of particular when he spoke of the influence interest. 'The film is of Merton's and active role of the devil in last day and the tape, of his the modern world. last words: a talk he gave at a People who'refuse to recogtlize conference in Bangkok, Thailand. Merton (Trappist Father Louis) the existence of- this "terrible was attending a Catholic confer- realitv," ihe Pope said, "step be- ' ence on monasticism in the Far yond 'tile picture painted by bibEast in December 1968 when he lical and ecclesiastical teaching." was killed by an accidental elecCiting the innumerable refertric shock. ences to the existence of the devThe Merton Festival starts at il in the Bible, Pope Paul said: Oberlin College, where it is being , used as the core of a regular 'Still at Work' course for credit. After Oberlin "He is the number one enemy; it moves to Akron University, then to Cleveland State, Case he is the tempter wtthout equal. Western Reserve, and flYlally We thus know that this hidden Baldwin-Wallace College in De- and disturbing being truly exists and that he, with unbelievable cember. Besides speakers, tapes, and cunningness, still is at work. He films, the festival is featuring is the hidden enemy who sows an exhibit of Merton's photogra- errors and disasters in human history." phy and writings.

Noting that at present ther~ seems to be little interest in theI study of the devil and his role iTt human history, Pope Paul saiq: "The study of the devil an~ his influences over individuals, the community and the whole Qf society and events, would be ~ very important chapter of Catholic doctrine to reexamine, atthough today it is not giver much attention." : Even Catholic scholars ana scientists seem to pay little attention to the devil these daYf' the Pope said. : The essential defense against the spirit of the evil, the po~e said, is grace. : "Innocence assumes strength" in the face of evil, the Pope said. "The Christian must be militant; he must be vigilant and strong. He must sometimes rely on some special ascetic Christian practi~e to fend off these diabolic inv~~ sions." I

Continued from Page One that such persons may beeome victims of "quality of life" programs being promoted by euthanasia advocates. "Persons with mental retardation ..., Father Gilsenan said, "are not only the recipients of what th'e Church offers, but they are also contributors by virtue of their individual value and of the positive Christian attitudes they stimulate in others." "A person with retardation" also has the right: to an ed'ucation, a job, and a "decent standard of living." to participate in community life and to live with his family, if possible. . Fr~edom from "abuse and degrading treatment." A guardian "to protest his personal well-being." Legal safeguards of rights he cannot exercise himself.

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Father Hesburg.h. Primarily An Outstanding' Priest Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame University, is a man of many parts. He is on.e of the best known, more versatile, aqd-with good reason-one of the most highly respected priests in the United

States. His ability to do so . many things at one and the same time and to do them all so well-and, above all, to integrate them so successfully into his priestly ministry - is truly phenomenal.

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apparently under pressure from the White House, to resign from this crucially important post. The fact that his was the first resignation called for and aecepted by the AdminIstration-and the further fact that the Administration went out of its way to let it be known that such was the case-adds a certain lustre to his reputation as a man of integrity and fearless independence. . ,

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Father Andrew Greeley recently observed that Hesburgh "may just be the, greatest university president currently practicing in the United States." Whatever: of that, he IS certainly a preeminent figure in the field of hig~er education. ' He is more than that, however. During the past 20-odd years, he has also carried out, with rare energy and with great distinction, a., staggering variety of other assignments in Church and State, both at home and. abroad. And throl,lgh it all he has gracefully t.aken ~verything in stride abd has managed remarkably well to keep his feet on the ground. Ther~ is no "side" to the man. He is still the same downto-earth, plain-spoken priest that he was· some 30 years ago when I first met him at the Catholic University o( America where he was doing graduate studies in .theology. Men of integritY

Apparently he was too "hot" for the Administration to handle. He simply refused to play the. Washington pqlitical game. As Chairman of the Commission, he was strictly his own man, and he consistently called the shots as he saw them, w~thout fear or favor and without looking over his shoulder at the political ·powers-that-be. More power ~() him. This is not to say that the Ad.. ministration was under any obligation to extend his term of of·· fjce. After all, the President-· any President-is perfectly free to pick his own team in thisoI' any other agency of government. On the other hand, partisan politics aside,l would agree with the Washington Post that "It is sad' news - that' Father Hesburgh's long and honorable tenure on the commission has been terminated. He' has served on the commission since its inception and is only the second chairman in its 15-year history. During that time, the ·commission's independence has been its hallmark." . Great Priest

I would also agree with the Joel R. Connelly and Howard post when ,it says, at the end of J. Dooley have sized him up to its November 20 editorial on the perfection in their recent auto- future of the commission, that biography, "Hesburgh's Notre "nqw that Father Hesburgh's Dame: Triumph in Transition" resignation has been accepted, (Hawthorne Books, Inc., New we would hope that Mr. Nixon York, $7.95). "Hesburgh, the recognizes and values the conPresident," they conclude, "Hes- tributions the commission. has burgh the member of the Estab- made over the years and wants lishment, Hes~urgh the citizen of those. contributions continued.. the world is at the core still The best way for the President Father Hesburg." Or as George to demonstrate that desire and Shuster, former president of ·to quiet the unease that Father Hunter College, put it to Co~ Hesburgh's departure is sure to nelly and Dooley: "You must un- spread throughout the civil derstand that Hesburgh is first rights community 'is to pick a of all a .priest, and a very good person similar in stature, comone at that." mitment and independence to the All of this is by way of saying two men who have already "thank you"; and "congratula- seryed so effectively." ,tions" to Father Hesburgh as he It remains__to be seen whether comes to the end of his 15-year or not the President will follow term of office as a member and, the Post's advice in his r.egard. more recently, as the aggressive Meanwhile let's give three cheers and highly effective Chairman of for Father Hesburgh. He is a disthe U. S. Civil Rights Commis- tinguished educator, a dedicated sion. Prescindlng from /partisan public servant, and a most effecpolitics, I think it speaks well for tive champion of civil rights. the man that. he has been forced, Father Greeley says there' can be no ,doubt that he "is the most influential priest in the United . Friends States today." I am inclined to ·Friends should be like books, agree with this opinion. But reeasy to find when you need gardl'ess of Hesburgh's influence or lack of influence, he is a them, but seldom used. great priest and a man of whom -Emerson·

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PIUS XII AWARDS: Bishop Cronin awarded' the. Pope Pius XII Awards at ceremonies in St. Mary's Cathedral on Sunday aft~rnoon to William LaValley Jr., MichaelFj· guerado, Joseph FernandE~s, Michael Dunn. Figuerado is from' St. Joseph, Attleboro; others are from St. Mary':;, Norton.

'Intervi~w' With Pope. C"alled Hoax VATICAN CITY (NC) - A New York journalist's aileged "exclusive" two-hour interview with Pope Paul VI was branded a hoax by an angry V~tica'n official. ./ -The official said. that, in fact, no interview. of any kind was ev,er granted by the Pope to Hemy O. Dorqlann of' the National Enquirer, a weekly published in Florida with national distribution. Dormann had sent to Vatican officials advance copies of the Enquirer dated Dec. 3 containing his "exclusive two-hour interview with Pope Paul VI, di!icussing critical questions facing the Church today." . The interview is a hoax, ac:cording .to Archbishop Edward He:5ton, president of the' Pontifi.cal Commission for Social Communications. ' . Early in October, the archbishop said, Dormaori interviewed the flecretary 'of that commission, Msgr. Andrea Deskur, asking his opiniort on Il number of questions ranging from abortion to the possibility of ,electing a Negro Pope. Dor· mann's "interview" in the Na.. tional Enq!lirer also referred tet Vatica,n finances. In Oct. Dormann met Pope: Paul VI in a special' pri~ate:. audience in which the Pope meets an individual or a family, chats with them· for a minute and allows. a pic.ture to be taken. 'Faithful to Truth' According to Archbishop Hes- \ ton, Dormann made it appear as though he had asked Pope Paul some of the questions he had asked Msgr. Deskur. Th~n, said Archbishop Heston, Dormann used monsignor's replies' as though they were those of, the Pope. A.ccompanying the article in the National Enquirer is a picture of pormann with' the Pope taken at that Oct. 4 audidence. The journalist reported that the Pope told him: "always be faithful to the truth."

Archbishop Heston said he does .not think Dormann adhered to that advice. "Shocked by your alleged Interview," the archbishop said in a telegram. to Dormann Nov. 14. "I protest firmly and condemn vigorously such flagrant misrepresentation of the' facts, betraying the confidence placed in you and violating fundamental jouralistic ethics," the archbishop said in the telegram.

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Catholic Paper ZAGREB (NC) ~ A prosecutor in the Yugoslavian republic of Croatia has banned the Catholic newspaper GIas Koncila· (Voice of the Council). for publishing an article which, the court said, "calls believers to disobedience." Croatia, one of the republics that make up the Yugoslav federation, is predominantly Catholic. / The prosecutor's office here said' the weekly newspaper was banned because it printed an article with "false and alarming 'reports and. which cal~s ib~lievers to disobedience and disrespect toward the laws of Yugoslavia and Croatia." Entitled. "Seventeen Centuries of Sacred Defiance," the article told the story of a' saint who . "preferred to die rather than become subdued." GIas Koncila is published by the Catholic M'chdiocese of Zagreb, capital of Croatia. .

In Washington, Dormaqn ~ pressed surprise at, Arch~ishop Heston's comments. When;! asked how much time he had' spent with the Pope in getting the alleged interview, Dorma~n declined to answer. 'All the Facts' _"I have no .reason to ~efend myself," said Dormann, I,'but I don't think that I should'j make any comment until I hav~ contacted Archbishop Hesto~." Dormann sent a telegr~m to Archbishop Heston asking him to suspend all judgment on the alleged interview until h~ had received all the facts. At the Vatican, Arch~ishop Heston told NC News: "I a.lready have all the facts." Archbishop Heston sai4 that Dormann positively did not spend anywhere near two hours with the Pope. At the most, he had two or three minutes as everyone does at a special audience, the archbishop said.

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Seeks Preservatiqn of Religious Art WASHINGTON (NC) - Tra.; at the conclusion that people's ditional devotions and the re- devotions cannot· be suppressed ligious art that goes with them: bl;lt reoriented, purged perhaps "are of important concern t~ ,:of their magic overtones but Church renewal," according to a; :t"1never buried," Bishop Franco Colombian bishop who has prei . Arango said. "Liturgical renewal, served valuable pieces 'of Spanisq with its stress on theology, can colonial art. . do this. Meantime, we need the Bishop Julio Franco Arango o~ cult~ral herit?ge of our past.gen. Duitama in Colombia's central eratlons to gIve a sense of Iden· Andes added that greater effort~ tity to our people." ar~ "needed if we are to savEi . For the last. four ye~rs ~e this cultural heritage from tM bIshop has enr!c.hed DUltam~ s onslaught of art dealers and col~ Museum of ReligIOUS Art. With lectors" some 2,500 pieces of colonial art . -sculptures, paintings, jewelry "At meetings on liturgical re~ and ornaments-the museum is newal held by the Latin Amerit considered one of the best in can Bishops Council we arrivec$ South America. I

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CHRISTMAS BENEFIT FOR SISTERS: More than 800 Friends of the Sisters of the Holy Union of the Sacred, Hearts from within· and outside the Diocese of Fall River gathered Saturday night at the Fifth Annual Banquet honoring the Sisters and assisting them in their apostolate. Among the principals present were: Sr..Grace Donovan, SUSC, provincial; Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River, who addressed the gathering; Frank S. Feitelberg of Fall River, fund raising chairman; Mrs. James T. Thomas of Taunton, are~ lay chairman.

See 'Reverse Mission' as Key to Crisis WASHINGTON (NC) - The concept of "reverse mission"the effect that mission generosity has on the country which helps the missions-was one of the recurring themes at the National Mission Animation Conference here. The conference, described by its organizers as the first full scale U. S. missionary congress in 60 years, was attended by 700 persons: missionaries home on furlough, other members of religious orders and missionary societies, diocesan Propagation of the Faith directors, coilege students and seminarians. At the conference, held at the Catholic University of America and sponsored by the U. S. Catholic Mission Council (USCMC), Father Joseph M. Connors, USCMC'executive secretary, said that in the past four years the , number of U. S. missionaries . abroad has dropped from 9,655 to 7,649. This missionary crisis, Father Connors said, "is only a product· of many other general crises in society and the Church which inevitably affect missionary activity." . Much of the discussion during the four days centered around a positive approach to this crisis in terms of "reverse 'mission." Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli, Sec~tary of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. focused on this even when h~ told an audience of about 1,000 people, including over 200 high school students, that the important thing is "generosity - giving oneself to others." "

former national director of the Society for tne Propagation of the Faith, approached the "reverse mission" concept from another angle. Archbishop Sheen preached at a "Mass of the Nations" in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, concelebrated by more than 200 of the nation's bishops and attended by 2,000 people. Decrying the drop in vocations and the numbers leaving the priesthood and sisterhood, he said: "This is a very opportune time for every diocese in the United States to sponsor a priest through the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in a mission nation for every priest who has left the altar." 'Essential to Faith' Every order of Sisters in the United States," he continued,

"should sponsor a convent in a mission country as a means of "healing the wounds in their own orders." Archbishop Sheen' said that a revitalized missionary attitude in the United States was essential to a strong, vital faith among American Catholics. The theme of "reverse mission" recurred in many of the special workshop sessions throughout the conference. One special session that focused on life styles drew so many participants that it had to be moved from an auditorium to the main church of the National Shrine. The dominant theme of the discussion was the effect of are· turning missionary could have in making Americans aware of" the contrast between their own affluence and the poverty prevalent in most of the world.

Plan 100 Centers for Latin Masses ~n 'England, Wales LONDON (NC) - A plan to set up a national network of 100 Latin Mass centers is expected to be approved by Catholic authorities in England and Wales, a;c· cording to the National Liturgical Commission. The 100 churches to be designated as Latin Mass centers have

already been selected. Masses in English will also be offered at the center$. A special directory listing the churches has 'been published and a bilingual Missal is being pre, pared. There are nearly 5,000 churches and chapels in England and Wales and normally Mass in Lat. 'Opportune Time' in can be said only on special , The archbishop said the thing occasions with the permission of that impressed him about young the bishop of the diocese. people w.as "their realization In addition to English, Mass that it is through giving oneself may also be heard in London in that a person becomes 'someFrench, Italian and Polish and body.' " sometimes in Spanish, PortuArchbishop Fulton J. Sheen, guese, German and Maltese.

Only three English translations of the Mass will be recog· nized by the English and Welsh bishops from Advent 1973. Those are the National Liturgical Commissi01i's own translation, that of the International C . f I ommisslon or Eng ish in the Liturgy (used in English-speaking cJurliries) and a version now being prepared by the Benedictine monks at Glenstal Abbey in County Limerick in Ireland. Bishop William Wheeler of Leeds, president of the National Liturgical Commission, said puQ· lishers have been using a variety of translations, many of which are unsatisfactory. He said the international commission's version is influenced by American English ana that his own commission's translation is "more suitable for this country. It is faithful to the Latin and doctrinally accurate."

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Pope Paul Urges ,Greater Efforts For Unity

1972

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI, addressing bishops from five continents who had met to study Christian unity and disunity, warned that the Church's ministry of reconciliation "will last as long as the Church exists on earth." A divided Christianity, he declared, must acknowledge its "responsibility before unbelief" and work harder to remedy our present division. The Pope's audience consisted of delegates of the ecumenical commissions of 56 national bishops' conferences who had met with officials of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity for eight days. Among tpem were three non-Catholic observers. The meeting was designed to give those responsible for ecumenicaf work on a national level the opportunity for a concentrated exchange of ideas among themselves and with officials of the Vatican Unity sec· retariat. 'Spirit Guides Us' The Pope urged them to con· , tinue their work for unity whatever their difficulties, "for we AC~VENT know that it is the Spirit who %:!~~~~~;K~'tmr~r:tM:rIDW:5:t:W ..iM~:r~Wf:i.nirdDji:]W~~:f.~sM:*~~Wr"::,~~~m=!k~'i·:·~:·:~~·i{~~~_ guides us in accomplishing this task for which the Father sent His Son into the world." He cited various dimensions Jesu~; of unity: "unity' of faith lived WASHINGTON (NC) - The strongly liberal interpretations of and proclaimed; unity of wor, head of the 'U.S. bishop!,' h~ghE~r the Bible." ship, in its diverse forms is cenIn addition, the priest said Jes- tered on the eucharistic celeeducation office has Called the Jesus Movement "simplistic," us Movement followers seem to bration; unity nourished and "frequently antirational," "frt:- be motivated by "an unrecog- deepened by the sacraments ...; quently very manipulative," and nized need for a strong father- unity of our common life under "often utterly naive and ()CC~, figure" and, "a reduction, in per- the guidance of the bishops sionally so wrapped in fantasy as sonal psycho-social tensions by grouped around the bishops of turnirtg to exterri~i authqrity." to be unreal." Rome ...; Catholic unity fortified Father Laurence T. Murphy, di.- He said "some are drug users and illuminated by the diversity rector of the U.S. Catholic Con- seeking alternatives and substi- of charisms, of cultures, of outA Miami Springs High School is paying thirty-five ference Higher, Education Divi- tute experiences," that "for some look, of traditions, of customs dOllars each for pupils to learn how to meditate. It is hoped sion, said persons in the Move· this is simply another fad," and and of disciplines." ment generally were, anti-estab- that "for some it may well be a that this will help prevent drug abuse. ' Emphasizing that Christians lishment and directed toward genuine religious experience had received the ministry- of recIt seems strange that meditation is' being so widely , "pa,rticipatory activities." prompted and guided by the Holy onciliation, the Pope said: hailed now that it has become the thing to do and, has been He stated that some were Spirit." New Awareness former drug addicts, some reo given the seal of approv.al by, among other~, The. Beatles. After evaluating the Move"The unbelief of many of our The Catholic Church has always insisted that each regarded the movement as a fad, J:llent" Father Murphy turned to contemporaries must force us to and some actually may have had ligious person must 'practice prayer, meditation and some religious experiences following his criticisms of the religious .a new awareness of the urgency trend. He asserted: of remedying our present divIform of asceticis~ or sacrifice., the Movement. sion. Anti,Rational Meditation involves many disciplines. It requires a per1be education official said "Is not the unity 'of Christ's son to control himself to 'the extent of taking time and ·Church leaders can influence the "The most basic .criticism I of- disciples the great sign that must , making an effort.,'U calls for a discipline of the imagination young, who form the 'largest ele· fer is the evidence of a very bring forth the world's-faith?'" ment in the Jesus Movement, by After declaring that all Chrisand senses and the mind and will. It introduces into one's coming across to them "as 'real,' simplistiC mentality f 0 u n d throughout much of the move- tians must assume "with clarity , not remote." inner being a co~~rol that may 'be quite novel to some; ment. It is too easy to be Saved: and courage" ,their 'IresponsibilFather Murphy made bis com.. ,if you love Jesus, clap your, ity before unbelief," the Pope And then it turns one's forces toward the contemplation ments in a memorandum to hands or honk your horn! The said: . of God and of oneself in the light of God. Bishop Joseph Bernardin, usce question' of what follows on Bi"Unhappily, in the present sitThe whole' ~~xperience is not only refreshing men- General Sec;retary. The docu.. ble readh'tgs, evangelistic con-' uation of Christian division, our tally and emotionally and worthwhile physically but does merit, requested by Bishop iBer.. certs and pep rallies' receives divergences on the content of strengthen spiritual forces since it opens one to the presence nardin, was dated July 7, 1972 scant attention." the, witness we must give hinders and was made available at the"Another criticism," Father the translation of that common and activity'of God. reCE:nt fall meeting of U.S. bish· Murphy said,' "is the extreme responsibility into common acIt is interesting that the practice associated w~th monks ops. concentration on feelings; emo- t i o n . ' . and nuns and religious and priests is now the concern of the At the beginning of his memo tions, ~experiences.' The move"The greater our accord, the orandum, Father Murphy said ment is 'not' oniy simplistic, it is more such collaboration can dejet set and the "now" generation, the Jesus Movement "is one ex· frequently anti-rational. People velop. pression of a coalescence of val- get high on drugs, or alcohol or "With the Orthodox Churches, ues f )~:r:l within the so-called sex." for example, we are in almost youth culture." The education official also total communion, and the p2o'lsistated: bility of pastoral collaboration 'Simply Another Fad' "Third," he said" "the move- is the measure of the close ties He said persons usually in- ment is frequently very manip- that unite us." volved in the movemen't were ulative. Some 'charismatic" leadyouth-oriented and anti-estab- ers use te<:hniques to persuade lishment; oriented toward "pari- and even to coerce young people. Anti-Abortion Law OFFICIAL 'NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER PARIS (NC)-An attempt to Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River cipatory activities"; "have a They manipulate their emotional highly personalized relationship needs, especially for love, ac- attack France's strict 52-year-old , 410 Highland Avenue with the historical figure of Jes- ceptance, and (for many) sub- anti-abortion law failed as a Fall River, Mass. 0~722 675-7151 'us"; and "have personalized and . mission, and at times quite court here found four defendants PUBLISHER knowingly use the Bible dishon- guilty of breaking the law, alMost Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.'T.D. estly. The danger is that many though under extenuatjng c,irLingering young people may b~ so scarred stances. G~NERAL MANAGER, ASST. GENERAL MANAGER Everything comes too late for by their experience that 't"e" , The' court gave two of the Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, M.A. Rev. John P. Driscoll those who only wait. will be 'burnt ,out' as far as the,ir defendants suspended sentences ~ lelry Press-,rln River -Hubbard future r~ligious experience goes." and discharged two others.

The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago has issued a report saying that moralreligious views of American Catholics are becoming "virtually indistinguishable" from Protestants. The Center's director is the priest-sociologist Rev. Andrew M. Greeley. One reacti9n to the report must be that not all persons calling themselves Catholics a{e, in fact, Catholics. And not all those calling themselves Catholics are willing to accept the fact thaf their views differ so much from the Church of Christ that they are Catholics in name only. They claim the title while quite ready to express views and convictions that actually read them out of the Catholic Church. It is as simple as that. , The Bible speaks of a "remnant" and it may well be that the number of Catholics in the world will rema,in in that 'category, as a remnant. " , The fact that there are those calling themselves Catho.. lics who actually are not should not be cause for turmoill but for a greater dedication to the Church and to the teach·· ings of Christ. . Father Greeley adds to the report a somewhat gratu·, itous statement that the "collective hierarchy" seems too preoccupied with protecting their powers to' face the problem. This would be a startling and disturbing statement if one did riot know Father Greeley: He is a man of great perception anq knowledge except, it seems; when he speaks of bishops and then he lets loose with some surprising remarks. The so-called hierarchy - he really means the bishops since hierarchy means the whoie structure of the Church, Pope and. bishops and priests and lay people - has long been a blind spot with Father Greeley. Once this -is recognized, then the reports he issues can be placed in proper'perspec-' tive'.' ' 'A further additional reaction to the report is the thought of what would happen if the Holy Spirit singled out Father Greeley to be a ,bishop. Now there would be a crisi~ interesting to observe. '

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C:atholic Confe.'ence Official Movement D1enounces

Mission Official , Sees Increase In Vocations WASHINGTON '(NC) - There are- signs of hope in the midst of a serious crisis in missionary vocations, Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli, secretary ~::'of the Vatican's Congregation for the Evan~ gelization of Peoples, told newsmen here. The archbishop's comments came at a press conference in the. National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception after a speech to the 700 participants of the National Mission Animation Conference held at the Catholic University of America here. Referring to the 20 per cent drop in U.S. missionary personnel abroad over the past four years, J\rchbishop Pignedoli said the situation was similar in most of the major mission-sending countries, such as Ireland, Italy, France, Germany and Spain. "There is a crisis," he said. "It's useless to deny it." But he added that some mission congre.gations have begun to show an increase in vocations lately, and many that were dropping rapidly seem to be leveling off. Hope of Future He also pointed to a new phenomenon of young people spending "one, two, or' three years working in a mission country." The archbishop stressed that this was not missionary work, properly speaking, but it was an indication of the generosity of today's youth and their sensitivity to world problems. The archbishop said ·he sees the "hope of the future" in the generosity of young people. Linking them with the "mission ani· mation" theme of the conference, he said, "This is what it's all about." Mission animation, he said, is making people conscious or aware of the needs of others, making them want to give of themselves. The 62-year·olli'.· archbishop warmed up as he: 'spoke on his favorite topic, youth. He has a list of young "per{pals" around the world which st>me say nuniber well over a th6'usand, and he makes a point of visiting young people wherever h~' travels. Other VoCations "The crisis of missionary vocations," he said, is "a crisis of the giving of self to others, of generosity." Besides the vocation of missionary work in the field, the archbishop said, "there are other vocations of generosity: to do something for others, to be against an easy life, to be dedicated to others." He said the young people he meets have a generous attitude. "They are open to friendship, open to charity." Asked about a reference in his earlier ta\k to an exchange of giving be~ween mission-sending and missionary countries, Archbishop Pignedoli said: "The missionary churches are so very rich in spiritual values. They are new, they are youngthey give us enthusiasm."

General Secretary Reviews Five Years Of Bishops' Twin Conference WASHINGTON (NC) The twin conferences . of U.S. Catholic bishops have moved from the "excitement and novelty generated by the Second 'vatican Council". into the not-so-glamorous task of making the Council work, according to Bishop Joseph L. Bernardin. Bishop Bernardin will step down shortly as general secretary of the conferences to become archbishop of Cincinnati. The agencies he has served for nearly five years are the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, which was created in response to the Second Vatican Council's call for national organizations of the hierarchy; and the U.S. Catholic Conference, which succeeded the National Catholic Welfare Conference as the permanent operating ilrm of the bishops on a nation!!l level. In Cincinnati, Bishop Bernardin will head an archdiocese of 529,000 Catholics in a total population of 2,670,000. In an interview with NC News Service, Bishop Bernardin discussed those years in which he was supervisor of all NCCBUSCC organizations and personnel. Reorganization Success A quiet, serious man, the bishop deftly turned aside any questions referring to "his" accomplishments or "his" contributions, and spoke instead of what "the conference" has done to de· velop itself and contribute to the life of the American church. When he was named general secretary in April, 1968, the U.S. bishops had just made "a major reorganization which gave an en. tirely new look to the confer.ence," Bishop Bernardin said. He said the reorganization was made "to bring the conference more in line with the concept of episcopal conferences as outlined by the Second Vatican Council." In his view the reorganization has succeeded. "Structurally' both conferences are in the position where they can carry out the work that has been entrusted , to them," Bishop Bernardin said. "The conference is not a 'sup.er-Church'," he said. "The actual implementation of decisions made by bishops as members of the episcopal conference take~ place at the local leveL" "At the same time," he added, "no one will deny the influence of the episcopal conference on - the life of the Church in this country." . Vatican

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Bishop Bernardin said the primary concern of the conference since it was set up in 1966 "has been the implementation of the renewal envisioned and mandated by the Second Vatican Council. "The conference has been very much involved in implementing the formation and the permanent diaconate," he said.

Second Vatican Council there was an excitement generated by the Council itself. There was als9 a certain novelty about some of the things that needed to be done, and this created a great deal of anticipation. Stresses Communication

Bishop Joseph L. Bernardin When asked about the comments of some observers that the conference seems to have entrenched lately, Bishop Bernardin replied: "Opening the bishops' meetings to the press has taken away some of the mystery, and per.haps now the vision of the conference that some people have is more in line with the reality that has always existed. "There's a deeper reason, though. At the conclusion of the

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"We've now moved into aqother phase - more important than the first, more excitink phase. Our task now is to teat some oj the implications of th~ Council in the light of our pa~ toral experience. This work ~s not always glamorous, and ~t necessarily involves much stud~ and time." Bishop Bernardin emphasize~ the importance of two-way co~ munication between the natioDlil conference and the grass-roo~s Church. . "The episcopal conference exists to serve the local churches," he said" "It's necessary, therefore, that before decisioqs are made -at the national level, there be adequate input from tlie dioceses. It is also necessary that after decisions are maeJe there be ample feedback. "Only in this way will tl)e episcopal conference be truly rooted in the day-to-day life pf the Church and be able to give the service expected of it."

Big 'No' Vote On New Text TOLEDO (NC)-The Catholic Chronicle got an overwhelming "no" vote when it asked readers' opinions on a new text of the Our Father. A check of ·the first 1,356 responses revealed 1,275 prefer the text Americans have known for generations, according to the Toledo diocesan paper. Thirty-one pel:sons said they would not object to use of the new form in the Mass, but would probably continue to use the present form in private prayers. Twenty-six gave unqualified approval to the new version; 24 liked the new version, suggesting some changes. The new form developed by an ecumenical group known as the International Consultation on English Texts, reads: Our Father ,in heaven, holy be yom: Name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us -today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Do not bring us to the test but deliver us from evil. .(For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever.) .

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Nov. 3,0-, 1972

'H.ere Are Gift Su,ggestions For Und,eeid,ed Husbands Every year at this time when thoughts tum to Christ- . mas gifts I find myself wondering what type of present, the wives of the' area would like from their spouses (other than mink coats, diamond' rings and trips around the world). Since most of the For the woman who does love women I know, and I am clothes a gift certificate for some sure that they are repre~en women's specialty store that she tative of the average female would hestitate even to think of throughout the dioc,ese, are considerate and hon-frivolous, measuring the.ir ~eeds by the family budget and preferring giving to

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receiving, the, thought more than the gift appears to be the thing. Doing a random sampling in the teacher's room at school, I ended up with a mixed bag of id~as~ The main one that did shine througll was that women didn't want their husbands to spend money on them in large amounts because very often the money is spent foolishly-this . i they do not want. Buy First Item '

Husbands do tend to have a fear of buying presents in stores that are unfamiliar to them, so very often they rush in; just preChristmas, and buy the first item 'the salesgirl suggests. Very often this is the wrong size, wrong color, or too luxurious for a wife who prefe~s sleeping in flannel pajamas. There are a million and one things' a husband could give his wife for a gift that. would not force him into the nearest intimate apparel store. For the woman who finds her days filled with small children and no outside interests (or time for outside interests), perhaps an evening in Boston complete with a babysitter already set up. For the woman who really cares how she looks but finds time and lack of money defeating her, a day of beauty complete with facial, , hair-do and manicure would be a wonderful gift and not that expensive. In Boston there many salons that offer this type of gift certificate. Top. this off with dinner,in the "big" city and it cer-, tainly would be a day to remember. ~ooks,

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If the wife is an art buff a special print or piece of inexpensive sculpture, that she would love to have but hesitate to buy for herself. If she's a reader, then. " a few special books or even a subscription to a book club whereby she receives a whole year of Christmas gifts. If she's a gourmet cook, then what better gift than a subscription to a , cooking lI)agazine or a gift certificate at a specialty food and kitchen g~dget shop.

Charity , A friend is a person who knows all about" you-and still likes you. -Hubbard

buying from, combines lUXUry and practicality becaus~ even though the store is elegant the item she does buy can be something she really needs. Another plus on this item is that the more expensive stores always have tremendous sales right after the holidays and a gift certificate can take advantage of this. If -the wives of the diocese want to leave this column around for their husbands to peruse I would offer just one last piece of advice - Know thy wife before going shopping.

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HEAD RETREAT ASSOCIATION: Mr. and Mrs. Lee Meyer of Tustin, Calif., have been elected national president couple of the Holy Family Retreat Association. The organization watS founded' 23 years ag'o, with headquarters in Phoenix, Ariz. NC Photo.

Loss Catholic Council Report Shows Number Of U.S. Missi,oners Decreasing

ROME (NC)-Anofficial AnWASHINGTON (NC) - Thl~ glican observer at a Christian number of U.S. priests, Brothers,' unity meeting at the Vatican said nuns and lay people serving in he believes the key to unity is not just a common creed or the foreign missions has 'dropped even intercommunion, but rather over 20 percent in the Illst fOUl; working together to fulfill the years, according to a report by mission of the Church to the - the U.S. Catholic Mission Coun· cil (USCMC) here. world. The study was released at the Anglican Coadjutor Bishop 'Arthur A. Vogel of West Missouri, National Mission Animation Con.. told NC News here that many fere:nce held at the Catholic Uni.. different Christian denomina- versity of America here. Father Joseph Connors, exe· tions today believe. the same . cutive director of the USCMC, thing. and . not only could but should share the sacrament of call,~d the loss of over 2,000 missioners in four years a serious Communion. He said it is "comparabfe one. Even though he is personal,ly convinced that intercommunion to the general drop in the nitmis quite proper, Bishop Vogel in- bel' of American priests and Re. ligious and is undoubtedly relatsisted: "Even sacramental intercom- ed to it." The data, compiled .every munion would not be the' sign othe,r year, show that the level of full Christian unity unless it of missionary activity has involved cooperation in fulfilling from a 1968 peak of dropped the mission of the Church to the 9,65:> missioners to 7;649 in 1972. world." The 1972 level- is compar~ble to the level first reached in 1~63. 178 Permanent Deacons, , In percentages, the hardest pinch in the last two years lias B08 Candidates in U.S. come among diocesan priests WASHINGTON (NC) ,.- The (frorn 373 in 1970 to 244 i~ 1972) United States now has 178 per- and nuns (from 3,824 in 1970 to manent deacons, and another 808 3,12~7 in 1972, candidates, representing 37 dioIn the same two years Reli, ceses, are in training, according giouH priests serving in t~e misto the U. S. Bishops Committee siom: showed a slight increase, on the Permanent Diaconate. from 3,117 to 3,171. The same The archdiocese of Chicago .upward swing appeared 'among will _ordain 98 deacons on Dec. semiJllarians (90 to 97) a~d lay 10. When the Hartford archdio- missioners (303 to 376). None of these three groups cese ordains a class of deacons in January, the total in the reached their 1966 peaks; howUnited States is expected to ever. Th,e number of Brothers,' which reach 300, with nearly 30 black and 40 Spanish-speaking dea- had cropped sharply between 1968 and 1970 (from 869 to 666), ~ons. Most deacons and candidates are married men, according showed a slower decline ,in the last two years, down to 634 in to committee officials here. The committee will hold its 1972. The report also showel;! tbat third annual national workshop the highest concentration of U,S. on the ministry and formation of permanent deacons in Houston, missioners abroad is in; Latin America: 1,882 in South AmeriTex., Dec. 1-3. The keynote address will be ca, n8 in Central America, and given by MaryknOll Father Eu- 819 in the Carribean Islands. ThE~ Far East is next with gene Kenney, a psychologist, on 1,955 American missioners serv"The Deacon and the Pastoral Mission of the Church." The Selfishness workshop will th~n evaluate the We are all serving a lifeministry of the deacon in the light of Father Kennedy's decrip- sentence in the dungeon of self. -Connolly tion of 'people's needs today. '

ing it, followed by Africa (1,107) and Oceania (826). There are 234 missioners serving Alaska, Canada, and Greenland; 39 in Europe, and 59 in the Near East. Slightly over half of America's foreign missioners are men, according to the report. The priests, Brothers, seminarians and laymen number 4,307. There are 3,127 nuns and 215 lay, f· women in the missions, or a total of 3,342 women.

CLARK (NC) - A ,group 'of priests was told here in New Jersey that three "crisis points" in the life of women require a special ministry by priests. Talking at a study day for priests on "Woman and the Ministry," Dr. Ann Lucas, 'a clinical psyphologist and family lif.e specialist who teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University, described ,the crisis points as the college <years, the early years of motherh90d and the mid-40s. In the college, she said, women encounter the "tremendous sexual crisis" on the campus, and in early motherhood 'they find themselves caught in a role for which 'they have not been prepared. In their mid-40s women find their children are grown and they are uncertain what to do with their lives, Dr. Lucas said. Dr. Lucas said· that on campus "if one is chaste, one is looked down on." The Church has a great deal to offer the' young because they are "searching for meaning. " . for someone to share some standards," she said. Discussing the early years of motherhood, the psychologist suggested a miriistry designed to help young couples be more competent parents and help them revive their love at a time when it faces new stresses. As it is, she said, the first contac;t the parish makes with them comes wHen the children are enro\led in . school. Among suggestions she offered were the establishment of parishlevel courses in coping with parenthood and encounter groups for young married couples.

Greets Ambassador Two Priests Kidnaped, Tortured in Mexico

VATICAN CITY (NC) - The "fundamental- mission" of the Catholic Church is to work un· MEXICO CITY (NC) - Mex- til the end of time for man's ico's Catholics have protested spiritual development, Pope Paul the kidnaping and torture by a VI told the new ambassador of rightist paramilitary group of Rwanda to the Holy See. The . two Marist priests working for Pope ,received Ambassador Leonsocial reform. idas Munyanshongore at the VatFather Carlos de Anda, Marist ican Nov.· 20. He told the Afrisuperior in Mexico, said the kid- can diplomat that he appreciated napers were trying to force Rwanda's efforts, which parallel 'Fathers Carlos Nunez and Rafael those of the Catholic Church, for Reygadas to give evidence progressive disarmament and the . against "subversives.!' utilizing of human resources and He described the torturers' . energies for developing countries. tactics as similar to those used in in other Latin American coun, tries by. paramilitary organizations. , "We all know," he said, "that ONE STOP throughout this continent powerSHOPPING CENTER ful local groups, in complicity • Television • Grocery with foreign groups, have been • Appliances .• Furniture using torture against those wllo advocate social change and the 104 Allen St., New Bedford social and economic betterment 997-9354 of the poor.",_ ,

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For Answer to His Knock Sometimes I make up stories to tell my younger children. I try to make them entertaining and also, to some degree, instructive. You might enjoy this story which I made up; you may want to tell it to your children for the beginning of Advent. . Once there was a very large stories about him are all conand successful business. trived. And these people keep believing it because it makes There were a great many them feel good." . employees ... but the strange thing was that none of them had ..

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ever seen the president of the company. His presence was feit, though. Some employees had gotten memos from him.and a few even said they had spoken to him on the phone. There was a love, admiration, ~lmost a reverence as co-workers affectionately reo ferred to him as "the Old Man." While there was a great regard for the Old Man in some quarters, others simply ignored him. They just. went their way, doing their job. The Old Man wasn't bothering them, so they weren't going to bother about him. One employee was cynical as he flatly stated, "I don't believe there is an Old Man. This company has been going on for years. Nopody has seen him. They talk about him. Some claim they have talked to him on the phone. But who can prove it? Just an Image "I think the Old Man is simply the product of someone's imagination. Someone decided we needed this Old Man image. The

Pope Urges Authentic 'Christian Style' vAT.ICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul Vol warned Catholics to be· ware the modern tendency to look for a "Church without ...," a Church without dogmas, authority or suffering. ' Speaking to thousands at his weekly general audience (Nov. 22), the Pope said that all who desire to take part in the program of renewal and reform called for by the Second Vatican Council, must do so with an "authentic Christian style." The Pope took pains to explain what he meant by this "style," saying: "In our case style means the result of an interior spirit; it means a visible authenticity of a m()ral order; it means the expression of a mentality, a con· cept of life and an integrity and loyalty." Response to the council's call for reform and renewal has been great, the Pope continued. "We must give praise and encouragement to those of its (the Church's) sons and institutions who, ,precisely to give the Church tile development which best corr~sponds to its original institution's and to its present mission, have prayed, worked, and suffered with good spirit over the past 10 years since the council began."

But the janitor had a different story. This old-timer was a pleasant, wrinkled· bit of a: man who gave out tidbits of information with the secretiveness of a race-track tout sharing a hot tip. One day a young employee approached the janitor and asked him, "You've been around here longer than anyone. What do you know of the Old .Man?" He took the young employee by the arm, and whisper~d, "He's been running this place for as long as I can remember. I know that years ago, he brought his son into the business. His son was doing a good job and a lot of people liked him. . "But there were others who resented him ... didn't like the idea of the boss's' son taking such a big part. "Then . . . the son disappeared." His voice lowered, so no one would overhear. "The storie::: have it that he, met a tragic death . . . died a condemned criminal;" "And they say that before the son died, he promised that he'd be back." Had to Wait The entrance door to the compimy was always kept locked. A visitor had to knock and wait for the door to be opened from the inside.. One cold day, late in December, there was a knock at the door. The secretary was going to open it, but the telephone rang. Several clerks started to answer it, but remembered they had paperwork to be finished, and shouldn't leave their desks. The young employee suggested to the man next to him that he go answer the door. "Are you kidding? I've got to get that report done to take to a meeting ,in five minutes!" On their way to the meeting,. they could all still hear the knocking at the door. Many officers were filing into the conference room. But not one of them stopped. . . . Someone else could answer the door. Being the last one going into the meeting, the young employee turned to the door and saw the janitor opening, it. On the step, a small, rough basket heid a bundle wrapped in a blanket. They lifted a baby from the basket and the corner' of the blanket fell away. The janitor's eyes shone . . . then filled with tears. Embroidered on the corner of the blanket were the initials "J. C.;' Almost no one had time to let him in. It's the beginning of advent. Let's listen for the knock . . . and take time to answer the door! Do you ever make up stories to tell your children? Write to me at The Anchor and tell me about them. Maybe we can share them with other motners.

,CHRISTMAS BAZAAR: Madonna Manor, North Attleboro, will hold its first Christmas bazaar from 10 A.M. to 8 P.M. tomorrow. Residents and personnel of Manor have 'joined in preparations and feature,d items will include homemade cakes and candy, handcrafted knitted and crocheted items, toys, jewelry, Christfllas articles and white ele~hant selections. Snacks will be available and proceeds will benefit medical mission in India opened last month by Dominican Sisters of Presentation. From left, Sister Thomas More, superior at Manor, Miss Eleanor Jones, Miss Flora Cote, Mrs. Louise Carvalho, Miss Eleanor Robinson.

WASHINGTON (NC) - The new 18 year age minim'um for permanent lectors and acolytes, established at the U. S. bishops' annual meeting here, will' nDt rule out the practice of young altar boys serving at Mass, according to an official of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB). Father John Rotelle, associate direotor of the NCCB Committee on the Liturgy, said here that, "just as there will still be women readers, so altar boys will still be used under the new norms.',' Pope Paul VI established the lay ministries of acolyte and lec· tor by an apostolic letter last August. When the letter was released in September, it created a contro-

Christmas Sale Mt. St. Rita Health Centre, Cumberland, R. I., a facility for infirm and retired Sisters of Mercy, will hold a Chr'istmas sale .tomorrow and Saturday from' 11 A.M. to 9 P.M. Artcles handcrafted. hy the Sisters and their friends' will be featured, includin'g afghans, aprons, hats scarves and baby -items. Also available will be p,astries, jewel· ry, flQral decorations, plants, toys, paintings and ceramics. White elephant and boutique booths will be open and snacks will be served at any time.

Laughter Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. -Wilde

versy because the Pope had reaf· firmed the custom of allowing only men to be permanently installed in the office of either ministry. There were, immediate "clarifications" from the Vatican and the national office of the NCCB, pointing out that women would still take part in the Uturgy as readers "by temporary appointment." "By temporary appointment" is the technical terminology used to refer to those who exercise a ministry without formal installation. In the same way that women will still be readers although they cannot be installed in the ministry of lector, altar boys c~n still serve at the altar even though they are too young to meet the 18-year minimum age for being installed in the ministry of acolyte. Besides serving at Mass, the ministry of acolyte includes 1;>e,ing extraordinary minister of the Eucharist under certain circumstances and publicly exposing

the Blessed Sacrament if there is no priest or deacon available to do it. Sepvate Ministry Father Rotelle said that these funotions of the acolyte's ministry would be reserved to those installed as ·permanent acolytes or as extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist. According to ,Father Rotelle, no one is quite sure what will happen to "extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist," a special ministry that has been authQr· ized ,in the United States since 1971 on an experimental basis. Since the document authorizing this as a separate ministry was "experimental," and since this ministry is part of the new ministry of acolyte, some observers expect the special ministry to be phased out. However, since the extraordinary ministry of the Eucharist is open to women-while the office of acolyte is nm-there could be efforts to retain that ministry.

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/ Interfaifh Group Continues to Aid Storm Victims WILKES-BARRE (NC) - Five months after tropical storm Agnes hit the Wyoming valley here, Protestant Jewish and Catholic agencies are still busy helping victi~s of the disaster. The agencies formed Interfaith Flood Recovery (IFFR) last September to channel money, material and volunteers to the 60,000 persons left homeless when the storm caused $1.5 billion damage in the valley. IFFR also works with federal government relief agencies in helping persons who suffered when the Susquehanna River overflowed following' the storm June 23.The river separates this municipality from the borough of Kinkston. Both areas were severly damaged, .and they are the center of IFFR efforts. Father Constantine V. Siconolfi, director of the Ecumenism and Human Affairs Office of the Scranton diocese, said his office works with Protestant and Jewish leaders in the IFFR program. Government Aid The religious groups hand out cards on which flood victims list their needs. These cards are then. used by relief officials, who send donations, materials and volunteers to those in need of assistance. Father Siconolfi' said thou-. sands of volunteers, chiefly from New Jersey ~nd .Pennsylvania, have _ rebuilt I and renovated homes, repaired electrical wiring, plumbing and heating units, and counselled flood victims on the legal aspects of their problems. In addition, he· said clergy volunteers have counselled persons psychologically shaken by the destruction of their homes. IFFR workers maintain warehouses where they distribute goods -they have collected and goods which were made available by the federal, government's Office of Emergency Preparedness. . 'Asks CHD Funds Parishes of the Scranton diocese raised about $600,000 in collections for the flood victims last August and September. These funds have been dispensed by parishes to, needy Catholics and non-Catholics through individual grants. I

Financial aid also has been made available by· parishes in Philadelphia and New Jersey, Father Siconolfi said. Apparently the largest donor has been the Philadelphia archdiocese which gave' $100,000 in August. The priest said he was preparing a proposal for· financial aid to IFFR to be sent to the . U.S. bishops'. Campaign for Human Development in Washington. Any CHD funds, he said, would be used to continue the IFFR into next year.

Empathy One of the most poignant of all human experiences is empathy-the ability to feel what others feel when suffering from ~West pain or loss.

STORE FOR PRIDE: Mrs. David Sandknop of Maplewood, Mo., is' a founder of a store called Appalachian Pride, whiich sells wood and ceramics products made at Appalachian Industries, Vanceburg, Ky. The plant was begun by, Father Patrick O'Donnell, who saw the need to offer local people employment and a ch~nce to use native skills. NC Photo.'

Open Store MAPLEWOOD (NC) - Mrs. David Sandknop had read a news story in the St. Louis Review and immediately had a better ideato' help the Appalachian poor help themselves. The NC News Service story told about Father Pat O'Donnell and his work among the Appa-

f~~r Appala~~liari lachian people in rural northeast Kentucky. In the" story, printed in the archdiocesan newspaper last August, Father O'Donnell as~ed for new markets for the wood and ceramics products made by the firm he started, Applachian Industries in Vanceburg, K~.

Diocese Supports Controversial Community Action Program TOLEno (NC) - The' Toledo diocese has decided to continue. to finance a community action program J:hat has beencriticiz~d. for "harassing" city officials. . 'The decision followed an evaluation of the Central Toledo Action Committee at the end of its first.year of operation. The diocese, which gave $18,000 for the f.irst year, agreed to give the agency about $11,000 to continue through August. The- committee, run. by two Jesuits, has fought for the demolition of unsafe buildings in the inner city and has worked to save 250 homes that were threatened with destruction by an ur~ ban renewal agency. Judge Too Lenient Members of the committee picketed real estate offices and organized a "Harry Welch Rat Hunt" named after a real estate man it accused of handling substandard buildings. They also held confrontations with Housing Judge _Andy Devine whom they charged with being too lenient with landlords. Judge Devine and other city officials complained that they had received reports of telephone harassment, misrepresentation - and intemperate language used by commission members. Judge Devine then resigned in protest. . Bishop John A. Donovan said that he gave serious considera-

tion to opinions on both sides of the issue before deciding to continue the program. "11: is never easy to support something which is controversial," Bishop Donovan said, "but it ii, important that ~ertain hum'lD values be upheld, and that is what our support of CTAiG is intended to do-to help the poor help themselves." 'UnfulfUled Promises' The program was started by Jesuit Father James P. Zeller and a Jesuit seminarian, Edwiu'd G. Bobinchak, both of whom had done community organization work in Chicago. . With the support of the diocese, the two began org~nizing comnlUnity groups in late 1971. The ,groups dealt with housing probk~ms, street lighting, and education. They started confrontations and picketed officialsan activist approach that was criticized by leaders of, older community organizations, and the Toledo Blade, a daily news- \ paper, as well as by city off;icialS'. ThE! Jesuits maintained,· how. ever that they had broken no laws and caused no injures: "We have :met with unfulfilled promises, ilies, and runarounds' from both city officials and slunt llandlords ..." the committee sald in a statement describing its first year -in operation..

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LONDON (NC)-A priest who heads an international aid organization has accused ·the bishops of the central African country of Burundi of failing to take a Christian stand during -the massacres in their country in the spring and summer. The bishops of Burundi "have fallen short ,both by their silence when they should have spoken and by their speech when they should have remained silent," said Praemonstratensian Father Werenfried van Straaten, head ot'The Church in Need, in a report published here. A "lack of love, pity and mercy charaCterized some episcopal . declarations," Father Van Straaten said. The massacres followed the outbreak of a revolt in Burundi in late April. The rebels, armed with axes and_ machetes, killed about a thousand members of the ruling Tutsi tribe, but the revolt was quelled by the predominantly Tutsi army within 10 days. The rebels apparently hoped that the Hutus, who constitute about 85 ·per cent of the population, would rise against the Tut· si, but they did not. Members of the Tutsi tribe, however, apparently· blamed 'the Hutus for the revolt and massa.cred many of them. Some killing was going on at the end Of June.

Brazil's Catholics Mark Thanksgiving

RIO DE JANEIRO' (NC) Catholics throughout Brazil Mrs. Sandknop, who with her flocked to the nation's churches husband previously planned to to observe Thanksgiving Day. 'Open a nursery school, said, "I' The main Mass was offered have a better idea." .fn the Candelaria Church here So, she and her husband, an by Cardinal Eugenio de Araujo accountant for the federal gov- Sales of Rio de Janeiro. It· was ernment, used their own money attended by Brazilian President to open an outlet for the Appa- Emilio Medici, his cabinet and lachian Industries product - a the diplomatic corps. store, called Appalachian Pride, A 1949 law made Thanksgivin this St. Louis suburb. ing, unknown in most Latin Products now on display at American countries, a national the store, brought to the estab- holiday here. Its observance was lishment by the Sandknops, in- started at the beginning of the clude chairs, coffee tables, par- century by a Brazilian diplomat, son's tables, stools, children's Jaoquim Nabuco, who ha~ been chairs, pottery, cutting boards, stationed in the United States. The Vatican has encouraged rolling pins, rag dolls, quilts and Brazilian' organizers of Thanksseveral items of jewelry. giving observance to spread them The items are starkly simple to other Latin. American coun· and well-made - but they are tries. Cardinal Franjo Seper, pre.inexpensive, perhaps the cause fect of the Vatican Doctrinal of the slowness of business -in Congregation, said in a letter to the Sandknop store in the first the Thanksgiving Day Crusade's week of business. national commission, that he is But the Sandknops are hope- giving full support to their efful. "The Maplewood area has a forts. lot of potential for speciality 1'1.--• .'",".-.-.'•......,;,;;;,;;;;;;;;,;....... shops," asserted ·Mrs. Sandknop.

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'Pro-Life' Drive Success Marked By Cooperation BISMARCK (NC) - The same coalition which engineered the defeat of an abortion referendum here is now working on a program of positive alternatives to abortion which wilLbe presented to the state legislature next year. The action shows that, the campaign against the referendum proposal, which would have allowed abortion for any reason up to the 20th we'ek, was not negative, according to Edwin Becker, executive director of the North Dakota Catholic Cortference. The campaign was actually a "pro-life" drive based in traditional values,. Becker said, and the ecumenical coalition that backed ,the campaign is now asking pro-abortionists for their opinions on an alternative to abortion.' " At present, plans are being drafted for a nine-point program, Becker said.

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'Close to God" The program will include: pregnancy service programs similar to Birthright; the elimination of illegitimacy information from birth certificates; adoption and health insurance improvements; mandatory rubella testing and vaccination; and "responsible" family life programs. "North Dakota is the most rural and most church-going state in the nation and traditionally conservative,", Becker said in an analysis of the Nov. 7 results. . "We in North Dakota are close to the soil and close to God. We believe in traditional values." ' Returns show the proposal lost by a margin approaching 4 to 1. Catholic voters accounted for only about one-sixth of votes cast in the general election, Becker estimated. Ecumenical Progress The referendum followed two unsuccessful attempts by proabortionists to persuade the state legislature to :,垄hange the states strict abortion, law. Becker said the abortion issue united religious groups who have disagreed in .th~. past, and said the cooperatioD;,..marks the most significant ,~umenical progress in the state',~ history. Contributing to the referendum's defeat, he said, was the absence of restrictives on abortion. "That turned off many of those who were undecided on the issue," he said. Although most of the funding for the abortion campaign came from within North Dakota, Becker said personal and financial help was received also, from neighboring states. He' said this reflected fears that North Dakota could become the abortion mill of the Midwest.

'The Harmonizer' FORT WAYNE (NC) - The Fort Wayne-South Bend edition of Our Sunday Visitor has decided to change ts name to The Harmoniz~r, a phrase that dates to the founding of Our Sunday Visitor in 1912. The na,lne was one of 1,200 submitted in a contest for a new name for the weekly diocesan newspaper.

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MARK JUBILEES: Sixty years of religious life are celebrated by Sister Zenaide, left, and Sister Danielle of the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation. Cousins, the two served for decades at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, are now retired, live at the Dighton vice-provincial house of their community.

Took Newborns' Pictures for 27 Years Two, cousins, Sister Zenaide, the former Dozia Raymond, and Sister Danielle, the former Marie Anne Lizotte, marked their diamond jubilee in religious life at

DALLAS (NC)-An -estimated 800 delegates from 33 church denominations are scheduled to meet at the F- irmont Hotel Here Dec. 3-7 for the ninth General Assembly of the National Council of Churches. The representatives of Protestant and Orthodox denominations are expected to focus their concern on evangelism, church aid for underdeveloped countr.ies, and ways to improve the environment and help residents of urban and rural slums. In addition, they will hear a series of speeches on these issues and consider recommendations for action on the issues. Among the speakers will be Dr. Colin Williams, dean of the Yale University Divinity School, and Dr. David Hubbard, of the Fuller Theological Seminary in California, who will address the assembly on the topic, "Evangel路 ism ana Church RenewaL" Patrick Auxiliary Bishop Flores of San Antonio, Tex., and black playwright Imamu Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones) will speak on "Justice, Liberation and Human Fulfillment." Dr. Margaret Mead, the anthropologist and an Episcopal church leader; Dr. Prestoq Williams of the Harvard ntvinity School; and Dr. Geor.ge R~pp of the University of the Re<llands (Calif.), are scheduled to 'speak on "Stewardship of Creation and Quality of Life." In addition to hearing the speakers in plenary sessioI\s. the assembly's delegates will fOIm 80 discussion groups to study issues and produce resolutions for the consideration of the full assembly. The resolutions are expected to reach the assembly fl<lor on Dec. 7. The assembly is scheduled to consider the plan for reorgilnization of the NCC. The plan provides for a policy路r'1aking Governing Board, with the Governing Board to meet twice annually instead of the three times.

A native of St. Anne's parish, Fall River, Sister Zenaide made her profession of vows in November, 1912., Most of her religious life was spent caring for community need.> at St. Anne's Hospital, with the exception of five years at the community's motherhouse in Tours, France. Baby Pictures VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope of ex-German lands. The treaty Sister Danielle, born in CanaPaul VI, in an audience with a now recognizes Poland's western da, came to St. Anne's parish, group of Polish bishOps, praised border as formed by the OdeI' Fall River, at an early age. Her the "fidelity and unity" that Pol- and Neisse rivers. The former sixty years of religious life have ish Catholics in former German German territory has been under been dedicated to care of the territories had demonstrated de- Polish administration since the newborn at St. Anne's Hospital. spite the "provisional arid anom- end of World War II. East Ger- She is well known to area mothalous" organization of the many had recognized Poland's ers as their babies' first photogChurch there since World War II. authority over the territory ear- rapher. For 27 years she took pictures of infants in the nursery But with "last summer's re- lier. organization of the Church in The Polish primate, Cardinal bassinets, pictures which are Western Poland," the Pope con- Stefan Wyszynski of Warsaw, treasured by uncounted families. On EquIty In Your Home Both Sisters, now retired, retinued, "the bishops in charge alluded to the Vatican's delay You May Use The Money can carry out their pastoral du- in naming the Polish hierarchy side at "Le Rosaire," at the However You Wish. ties efficaciously." when he introduced the Polish- Dighton vice-provincial house. ' AVCO FINANCIAL From the years immediately bishops to Pope Paul. Peace According to a paraphrase of following World War, II until SERVICES I will destroy my enemies by the past summer, the Vatican the cardinal's address published 71 WUllam St.. New Bedford had resisted appeals from both in the Vatican daily, L'Osserva- converting them to friends. 994路9638 -Maimonides the Polish bishops and the Pol- tore Romano, J-.e told the Pope ish Communist government to that the Vatican had shown name Polish bishops to head di- great understanding of western oceses in the' former German Poland's situation throughout territories east of the Oder- those long years of expectation. Neis~e river line. In reply the Pope called down upon Poland the blessing of a Recognizes Border Only after the ratification this "serene and happy: future," inyear of the ~eaty normalizing cludi",g "loyal and friendly colrelations between, Poland and laboration between the author*6% 2-3 yr. Term Deposit Certificate West Germany did the Vatican ities responsible for the nation's Now Yields 6.27% name Polish bishops to head the religious development and its dioceses there as well as create civil development." *5%% 1-2 yr. Term Deposit Certificate The visit of the Polish bishops, new dioceses led by Polish bishNow Yields 6.00% ops to replace the temporary which came at about the same 5112% 90-day Notice system of "apostolic administra- time as talks in Rome betweeI\, Now Yields 5.73% tors" that had governed the representatives of Poland's ComCatholic Church in Western Po- munist regime and the Vatican, 5lf4% . Regular Savings touched off renewed speculation, land since the war. . Now Yields 5.47% Before the Polish-West Ger- now more than a year old, that *Compounded Continuo~sly and paYClb~e monthly man treaty was signed and rati- Church and state in Poland are fied, the Vatican felt that the on the verge of a formal agreeBank by, mail - it costs you nothing creation of a Polish hierarchy ment regUlating their outstandwould have been read as de facto ing differences, such as freedom recognition by it of Poland's to publish newspapers and to 307 MAIN sr., SOUTH YARMOUTH, MASs. 02664 . claim to the 40,000 square miles build churches. a Mass of thanksgiving celebrated at the vice-provincial' house of the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation in Dighton.

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Let's Not Promote Our. Lost Causes as Successes I'm not in the habit of letting publishers in on my ideas for books that will .sell a million copies but" I'm magnanimously g~ving one away now. Chalk it up to Christmas spirit or foolhardiness. or just plain disgust <;>ver our common problem of promoting although they told me without lost causes as successes. , qualification that it was successBecause that's what my ful in involving the paren"ts. "Our idea is all about We desper- idea .is good, though," they in-

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illH~':mr ately need, in the Church as well . as in society, a book detailing our magnificent great successes in religious education (until you visit them),' in puffing up great leaders (until you meet the people who do their work) and in promoting innovative parish programs (which collapse before publishjng date). More than .once I've been asked to promote a parent program or religious education effort "because it's failing and we need the publicity." Likewise more than once, I've been asked not to publicize a working program "because publicity might ruin us." What irony - tq. think failing programs might work by publicizing them as successes and that working programs'might fail for the same reason. Something is amiss in Latfnland!

Responsibility to Readers I suppose the basic question concerns our responsibility to the reader. If we know a program is failing, do we have a responsibility to let the reader know? Probably not, in that our role is not to write obituaries for dying church efforts. On the other hand, do we li~ve a right to pretend the program is a big success in' hopes thl!-~ publicity will make it so? No;:~e do not. Yet we do it all th.e, time.' Let me cite an example.tw'as asked by the initiators of a rather ambitious parent-child re.1igious education program to write up the project for a n,ational publicat!on,

Gather I~formation On Abortion Laws WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Population, and Pro~Life Affairs plans to gather information on increased: activity to relax stringent abortion laws, on expected efforts to establish a national policy population control anq on UJ;lited Nations PopulationYear Activities in 1974. The panel, chaired by Cardinid John Cody of Chicago, made that report after holding its first meeting during the U.S" bishops' Fall meeting. here, . The committee, besides gathering information,' was formed to makepoli~y recommendations to the bishops on abortion and related iss4es. The panel is expected to :c'bnduct .its next meeting in JailUary;' .

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sisted "and if our parents read about it in a national publication, they might be more willing to become involved." I politely refused because I thought the idea dishonest but the article ended up in print. A few months later, in another part of the country, I found some sin· cere catechists setting up' the same program, modeling it after . the errors niade by their predecessors and hoping to achieve the same "magazine success." They were innocently deceived into thinking they were following successful blueprints. Editors cannot judge which ~ publicity is honest and which is press-agentry. They can't possi· bly check into ~very program r.. ~' '_'.'~ which is written up and sent to ~ .them. They have to take the publicity chairman's word for it: BRAZILIAN CAMP~GNER~ Although his Brazilian Democratic Movement party does not . ',' and too often, he develops use symbols, mayoral candidate Father Levi Rodriguez looks like a U.S. style Democrat as blind spots. , Any irresponsibility lies on the he rides a donkey during his campaign in Paos, Paraiba, Brazil. NC Photo. conscience of those seeking publicity. If there is the remotest . chance that some unsuspecting reader will read their deceptive WASHINGTON (NCh-EmphliThe pastoral justifies such in· the Catholic school the best story .and attempt to duplicate their program, then they are guil- sis on participation of the whole volvement, he said, by irs refer- available means' to fulfill his duty ty of niore than simple back-pat- Church 'community in making de- ences~ to-5lew' insights as to of religious education/' . ting. They must take the blame cisions concerning Cathplic edu- what the Creed means; applicaBut the bishop added that the for promoting others' failures as cation is the most important tions to contemporary life and pastoral was not urging parents well as their own point of the recently issued paE,- the need for structures of educa- to' send their children to Catholic toral message of the U. S. ~ish tion to expand, apply and enrich schools in order to protect them Turn Thing Around OPE, said the bishop undEfr whose it by relating it to life as it is from the dangers of public That's why we need to' turn direction the pastoral was· pre- now." schools. The pastoral's attitude Bishop McManus explained was not defensive, he said. the whole thing around and start pared. In an interview here, Auxiliary that the pastoral's statement publishing' what doesn't work "The kind of Catholic school and why. We have little diocesan Bis::lop William E. McManus of about the duty of Catholic par- to which the pastoral refers," exchange of ideas. If Diocese A Chicago, who as chairma,n of the ents "to entrust their children to - Bishop McManus said, "is one in tries a new program and it U.S. Catholic Conference Com- Catholic schools, when and which the dynamic of Christian doesn't work, let's applaud it mittee on Education directed where this is possible must be commitment on the part of the for being courageous enough to pre:paration of the pastoral, !laid: ready not only in the context of administration, teachers, parents tell Dioceses B through Z about "For the first'time to my knowl- the pastoral, but also in the con- and students is fully operative. edge the hishops have issued a , text ()f Vatican II's Declaration it so they won't duplicate it. "By that I mean that the We do have failures in our clear and ringing call .lor the on Christian Education. whole school community is en· That document made it clear church, lots of them. Likewise participation of the wliole ecde.. gaged in an ongoing quest for sial community in making high·· that the overriding duty of parwe have successes, lots of them, a deeper understanding of the but as long as we write up our leve:! decisions about the future ents is to give their, children, a meaning of Revelation and of its -of Catholic education." Christian education. There are failures .as suc.cesses and stop The ,pasto~al message, entitled, no exceptions to that duty. Be- relevance to all that is being publicizing our successes for fear "To Teach as Jesus Did,", waE, cause of the seriousness of the taught and learned. A total como. of their being labelled failures, approved at their recent fall gen., duty, Vatican II said that when mitment to truth and to social we're working backwards. justice, which might also be Maybe if we start being can- eral meeting here by a vote of and where possible, which is to found in some public schools 197 to 29, a vote which Bishop say normally, parents would find didly honest, we can turn the because of the Christian motivaprocess around and see who can McManus called "the most retion behind it." warding experience" of his .term publicize the biggest' failure as U.S. Priest Named the best learning process. Maybe, as education committee Chairat the man. His term expired To Vatican Post in order to get things going, we should offer a prize for the most· meeting. VATICAN CITY (NC)--IndiThe next most .importa~t point . magnificent failure in the 'church ana-born Father Basil Heiser, each year. You know, a little of the pastoral, Bishop McManus former general of the Conventual like the' Best Liar cOhtest .. " said, :5 that it "e~visions chapge, Franciscan order, has be'en ,new structures and new forms of Complete Line only the reverse ... finally. named undersecretary of the >10 ¢ >I< . Cath.olic education. Vatican~s . administrative office Building Materials "The bishops did not, however, Capsule Review: I just had an for Religious priests, Brothers 118 ALDEN RD. FAIRHAVEN enjoyable re-reading of "The specify what these new. forms and nuns throughout the world. 993-2611 Screwtape Letters" by C. S.· should or would be. That fact The post of undersecretary of Lewis and found them more ap" c~nf~rms the sincerity of their the Congregation for Religious plicable to 'the world of today appeal for total educational plan- has heen' vacant since Spring, than ever before. These are the ning with wide participation by when Canadian Father Dorio all who have a stake in the & immensely popular letters from Huot was named a judge of the devil to his nephew, and appren- future of Catholic educaUon." Roman Rota, high Church court. 'New Insights' tice .devil, on· how to get ·conIn recent years the .congrega. Over 3S Years trol of the human soul to which Al:;o important, th~bishOP tion for Religious has been under of Satisfied ServIce he's been assigned: ·Written duro said, was that the p~storal a crossfire from' Religious who Reg. Master Plumber: 7023 ling World War II, they were re- stated "sound doctrinal founda- think it will. not let them move JOSEPH RAPOSA> JR. issued in paper by Macmillan in tions for the Church's involve- fast enough into renewal,' and 806 NO. MAIN STREET 1962. 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PRESENT CAMP FIRE, SCOUT AWARDS: A record number of Girl and Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls received Marian Medals, Ad Altare Dei Crosses and Pope Pius XII Awards at annual Feast of Christ the King presentation ceremonies at St. Mary's Cathedral. Thirty-two parishes were represented by 112 boys and girls. The program included Mass with Bishop Cronin as principal concelebrant and presentation of awards by the Bishop. Left, Marian Medal recipients Carole Place, St.. George, Westport; Shelley

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Hall, St. Lawtence, New Bedford; Gail Miller, St. Jean Baptist, Fall River; Pamela Naslund, St. Joseph, Attleboro; Kathy Fata, St. Anthony of the Desert, Fall River. Right, Bishop confers Ad Altare Dei Crosses on Thomas and John Burke, Sacred Heart, Fall River. Others are Rev. John Oliveira, master of ceremonies, Joseph F. Murphy, chairman of Catholic Committee on.Boy Scouting for diocese.

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.Twentieth Annual LaSalette Illumination To Begin Sunday Afternoon

HOUSTON (NC) - Forty·four "poor, poor people" - retired Dominican Sisters - have ap· plied for Old Age Assistance from the Texas Department of Public Welfare. If the applications, filed indio vidually by the Sisters, are ap· proved, each Sister will receive about $77 monthly, along with medicaid, and other medical as· sistance. The local agency is reo viewing the requests. In the past, Sister Mary Louise Dolson, superior of the Sisters, explained, the income from the active Sisters took care of the elderly and infirm Sisters. "Now that does not stretch far enough," she said, because of in· flated prices, a decline in memo bership from 385 to 267, an in· creasing percentage of older Sis· ters, and the inadequacy of the average of $2700 a year to meet the active Sisters' own needs, as well as those of the retired Sis· ters. An active Sister's income, Sis· ter Dolson said, must cover per· sonal living expenses,' medical and dental care, educational ex· penses, the cost of community administration, building debt reo duction, as well' as the needs of the retired Sisters. "Needless to say, we can't do. all this with our salaries," she said. "We had to pursue possible avenues to supplement the present incomes." She said the salaries the Sis· ters have received have not en· abled them to pay social secur· ity or retirement benefits. "We tried to struggle alone, and not make our needs known," Sister Doison said, "but we are poor, po~r people and let's not be ashamed to say it. We are not askirig for room and board. We are a~king for their personal needs ancl Medicaid as individual· citizens of the state."

The 20th annual Christmas II· their role as peacemakers of the lumination on the groullds of La world. Salette Shrine and Prayer Cen· At the entrance to· the parking ter in Attleboro will begin at lot area leading into the La 4:15 p.m. Sut:lday, December 3. Salette grounds. visitors will The traditional display, which at· pass between two brightly lit tracts over 450,000 visitors of all 25·foot belfrys. faiths each year, will continue Another feature added' this for seven weeks, through Janu- ·year will be a 10 minute -s6und/sHde media program to ary 7. The theme of this year's dis· be shown every hour on the play is "Make' Straight His hour in the chapel explaining the Path," words of the prophet, meaning of the lights. The pres· John the Baptist. . entation will include recordings Planning.and designing for this from Father Pat's soon. to ~e year's display began early last re~e~sed second album ~Ith hiS Spring by the La Salette Shrine orlgmal words. and musIc. Fe~. Team, consisting of priests and t?i'ed sOhg~. Will be the album ~ lay volunteers under the direc. title song, Love One Another and "A Bright Star". tion of Rev. Andre Patenaude M.S. working with designer Jack Construction for the displays Costa of East Providence. started in July by the Shrine's Father Patenaude said choice mai~tenance crew under the di· of the theme is also taken from rec~lOn of Brothe~ Roger St. Ger· the song, "Prepare Ye The Way ~am, M.S. By ~ld.Oc~ober erecOf the Lord" from Godspell....... tIon of the varIOUS displays on " the grounds was well underway, Most peopl~ d~ not lo?k fo,~ including the stringing of four any r~al •.meanmg m the h~hts, miles of heavy.duty electrical he said. What we are trymg to wiring In addition approximate. show this year is that the lights . , can lead man down the path that leads to Christ; that man can Bangladesh Crisis do more for others by taking 'Far From Over' the direct path to the Manger DACCA (NC) - Bangladesh and to Christ." still d·~s!)arately needs aid, but This theme is highlighted by volunteer agencies are pulling the decorations and lights which out and giving the impression are in a variety of geometric de· that, the crisis is over, said a signs and forms. Highlighting of priest involved in relief work this year's display are: a tent here. Holy Ghost Father Raymond F. made from lights which will house the three wise men, a trio Ken.nedy said that if govern· panelled arch consisting of an ments ignore the situation, "the original design on hand·painted citizens of Bangladesh will con· glass as a background for the tinue to be one of the most de· manger, a 25-foot high lighted prived peoples of the world." Bangladesh, formerly East arch surrounding the manger plus the return this year of live Pakistan, was ravaged by intern· animals in the manger area and al violence in 1971. It emerged as new lighting. Another display a new nation after India defeated will be a 15·foot high illuminated the forces of West Pakistan ·in globe to remind Christians of a two-week war last December.

ly 60 trees will be lighted with over 700 multi-colored Christmas lights on each tree. Over 50,000 lights will be used in all. Following is the schedule for the Christmas Season activities at La Salette: Daily Masses: 9:00 AM., 12:10 P.M. and 7:30 P.M. (Special Masses on Sunday may be reo quested for no later than 11:30 AM.): , Cafeteria and Gift Shop Hours: Sundays: 8:30 AM. until 10:00 P.M. Weekdays: 10:00 AM. un· til 10:00 P.M. (Special arrangements can be made for groups upon request). Confessions will be heard: Weekdays: 12:00 to 1:00, 2:00 to 3:00, 4:00· to 5:00 and 6:30 to 7:25 P.M. Saturdays: 12:00 Noon to 7:25 P.M. Sundays: 12:00 Noon to 5:00 P.M. Arrangements for group tours may be made by contactng Rev. Andre Patenaude, M.S., La Sa· lette Shrine, Park Street (Route 118), Attleboro, Mass. 02703. Telephone: (617) 222-5410.

To Host Students F'or Holidays For the third year, Greater Fall River families will extend hospitality to foreign students during the Christmas holidays under sponsorship of the South End Youth Center, 1504 South Main St. Titled Christmas International House, the nationwide project seeks to place foreign college . students in American homes in an effort to further international understanding. Those interested in entertain· ing one or more foreign students from Dec. 18 through 30 may contact Miss Elizabeth Duffy, 208 Florence St., Fall River, telephone 679-4482 or Miss Kathleen Holleran, 74 Forest St., Fall River, telephone 676·8721. Host families provide sleeping accommodations and some meals, but a wide variety of activities are planned for the visitors by Youth Center members. Coordinator for the project is Thomas Viana and the original local organizer for 'the program, which is carried on in 24 states, was Rev. Kevin Tripp, former director of the South End Youth Center. •

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As Children Grow Older 'By Joe and Marilyn Roderick ' .

As our children have grown older, Marilyn and I find ourselves curtailing our observance of family customs, mostly because the children have a thousand and one things to do on their own. It is only right that they should seek their entertainment and companionship outside the fam- en and Jason is harder to keep out of it than to entice in, thereily circle, and although it fore I think I'll still have a little hurts a little, it is part and bit of help on this first Sunday

parcel of their growing up and becoming more independent. One custom we will continue, however, is that of celebrating Advent each night at home, ai,though even this will have to be adapted to the ages of the children. Traditionally we have a wreath, which will now become the task of the girls to ,make, : which we light every night. I have always selected a passage to be read from the Bible, now this will be Merly's job; arid we have had an Advent calendar which the children took turns opening. This year the windows ,of the Advent calendar will be the sole prerogative of Jason who' is young enough to enjoy the surprise behind each one. Set Up Creche Our nightly meeting was also the time for the children to set up the creche, taking one piece of the nativity set out each night until every piece was displayed. This will remain the job of Melissa and Jason, but Melissa, will hav,e the honor of selecting and buying a new piece for St. Nicho)as Day. Over the years this' nightly celebration of Advent has been the highlight of the Christmas season' .lor the children and for us, and 'we will make every ef-

of the holy season. Advent Oasis Advent is such a beautiful way to prepare for Christmas. Its celebration is an oasis in weeks crowded with gift shopping, frantic card writing, and short tempers. Oh, we still have arguments concerning whose duty it is to do what, but on the whole the celebration of Advent adds a great deal to the holiday sea: son from Stir-up Sunday through St. Nicholas Day right up to the time that the last candle is lit on the Advent wreath. The latter is by that time in a sad state for the simple reason that the children insist on having real greens, 'which find the test of four weeks in a warm house too much to endure. We very often find the day of Christmas itself (aside from the Christmas Mass and the visit with relatives) an anticlimax to all the preparation; So if you can get your family to savor Advent, do so. Then the preparation ~s as enjoyable, as the feast itself.

After you make your fruitcake for Stir:up Suriday ~nd wrap it up for the hOlidays' your family may protest that they want something made, for them that they can eat right then and there . - this deligIttful coffee cake fort to continue it, although we . from Mrs. Alice Cabeceiros of will have to adapt the procedure, St. Michael's parish, Pall River, to fit the ages and interests of, might J'ust fill that' need. the children. This, of course, is the clue to any and all activiti~s Coffee, Cake in the home, adapting them so that they have some significance I,4 cup brown sugar for everyone. Thus far we have Y2 cup chopped nuts sugar not been overwhelmingly suc1 teaspoon cinnamon mixture cessful in involving the' children Y2 cup margarine in home activities because they 1 cup sugar are quickly' widening their 2 eggs spheres of interest but we have 1 teaspoon vanilla determined that we will hold 1 cup sour cream onto whatever we can, primarily 1 teaspoon soda (baking) to give them a sense of conti1 Y2 cup flour " nuity in their family life. For 1 Y2 teaspoons baking powder parents with teenage children, I,4 teaspoon salt this is easier said than done! 1) Cream together the margarin.~ and 1 cup sugar. In the Kitchen 2) Add the eggs and vanilla. While Joe has already mentioned that we are being forced 3) Mix together the baking soda and one cup sour cream. to adjust our Advent customs to the advancing age of !our off- 4) Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. spring, I still 'feel that it's important to make a friJitcake on· 5) Add alternately to egg, mix· the first Sunday of Advent - I . ture, the flour and sour cream Stir-up Sunday. This year I plan mixture. to make the: puriipkin fruit cake 6) Pour Y2 of batter into 9 inch that was 'in' the column a few tube pan and add Y2 of thE: weeks ago. It's not a dfficult sugar mixture. ,Pour in re·, recipe and the finished product maining batter, and top with is 'both tasty and long lasting. other half of sugar mixture. While it might be difficult to 7) Bake in a 350· oven for 35 to pin Meryl down long enough to 40 minutes. give the ,batter a couple of stirs Note: In last week's column,. I might be able to get her at least to cut up spme of the fruit the recipe for Bride's Pride bread (providing of .course that I also incorrectly indicated that raisins invite her bosom buddy Bar· should be on the outSide of the bara to participate). Melissa still ' loaf. They should be folded in· enjoys an af~ernoon in the kitch- !!ide the dough.

'IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, NEW BEDFORD A whist party will be held at 7:30 on Saturday night, Dec. 9 in the school hall. ST. PIUS X, SO. YARMO,UTH The Women's Guild will hold the annual "Holly Tea" between 1 and 4 on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 5 ,in the home of Mrs. John F. Santry~ 49 Little Cove Circle, TO SPEAK: Msgt. John G. West Dennis~ Nolan will address a conven-' All Guild members from Dent:ion of the National Aposto- nis anll Yarmouth are invited to late of Maronites Sunday,- this opening of festive season. The Holy Name Society will Nov. 12 at High Point Motor hold its monthly meeting in the Inn, Chicopee. His topic 'will parish hall on Wednesday eve· be "What's New in the Holy ning, Dec. 6. ' Land." Representatives of , The program will consist of a St. Anthony of th~ Deslert guest speaker, a short spiritual service and a .business meeting. parish, Fall River, and Our Refr.eshments will be served.

Lady of Purgatory, New Bedford, will be among those present at the weekend gathering which will feature seminars, workhops", lectures and films 'designed to bring Maronite Catholics together spiritually, culturally and socially.

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ST.. JOSEPH. ATTLEBORO . The Church Advent Wreaths wili be blessed this coming weekend. The outdoor wreath will be blessed after the 5 o'clock evening Mass on Saturday, while the sanctuary wreath will be blessed following the 10:30 Mass on Sunday morning. The Women',s Guild will sponsor a Yuletide Whist Party at 8 o'clock on Saturday night, Dec. 9 in the parish hall.

WASHINGTON (NC) - The ST. GEORGE, ":most compelling'imd Christian WESTPORT characteristic of the Church in The Women's Guild will hold LaUn America today is her in- its monthly whist party at 8 creasing awareness and insist- o'clock on Saturday night, De'c. ence upon the primaty of her 2 in the parish school on Route concern for the poor of eVE!ry 177, Westport. race, color and creed," said Ar(:hbiishop Humberto S. Medeiros of ST. JOSEPH. Boston. NEW BEDFORD In a sermon during the annual John Danis, minister of music P,an-American Mass iI~ St. Pat- at St. Joseph's Parish, will give ricks' Church here, Archbishop an organ recital at 8 o'clock on Medeiros said: "More and more Sunday eveping, Dec. 3. Featured' we hear of individual clergymen will be the works of Bach, Vivaland laymen who have taken ser- •dJ, Langlais, Buxtehude, Balbasiously the Gospel call for rElal tre ande Walther. conversion (If their lives in orcIer A collection will be taken ~p to. serve Christ more effectivE:ly during the intermission as a in the poor and oppre~sed." means for .the upke~p of the He went on to say that "We organ. , also hear that those who ordiThe recital is open to the pubnarily would ,divide into oppos- lic. ing camps, because of. so-caned, liberal and conservative theolog- HOLY REDEEMER, ical leanings, are now coming to- CHATHAM gE:ther in a common ~nd cha:riThe Association' of the Sacred table way in order to lessen and Hearts will hold'a Christmas sale hopefully eliminate gross sup- from 4 to 7 P.M. Saturday 'and pression of human rights and out- from 8:30 A.M. to 1 P.M. Suriday. rageous degrading of the person- Handmade articles and baked al dignity of the poor. ' goOds' will be featured. Mrs: "Refusing to resort to vio- Joseph O'Keefe, chairman, is belence, religious leaders through- ing assisted in arrangements ~y out the continent are now taking Mrs. James Larkin. To be raffled public stands against existing sit- are a handmade quilt, and a uations and activities which de- poncho. prive men of their God-givc!D rights and freedom to develop Ito th.eir full potential as men r,edeemed by Jesus Christ, the Son of God," Archbishop Medeiros said. He concluded by saying: "The People of God, the' Church i.n , Latin America, is at this moment sh'::lwing us the way to justic:e ,Contraetors and to peace."

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NEW BEDFORD . The Men's' League will sponsor ,a Snowflake Dance in February at the New Bedford Country Club. The Ladies League of the Parish will hold its annual Christmas Party on Monday night, Dec. 4. IMMACULATE CONCEPnON, FALL JUVER The Women's Guild will host the Fall River District Council meeting tonight at 7:30 in the church hall. ' . The guild will hold its annual Christmas party at 6:30 on Monday night, Dec. 4 in the church hall. A buffet supper will be served. HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER All are invited to 'a Project Leisure meetiQg from 2 to 4 this afternoon in the school hall. Rev. Kenneth G. Delano Will speak on astronomy. ' ST. LOUIS DE FRANCE, SWANSEA Ladies of Ste. Anne will hold their annual Christmas party at , 7 Wednesday night, Dec. 6 in the parish hall. A meat pie supper willl be served and the AA&D Inc. singers, directed by Kial O'Brien, will entertain. Gifts will be exchanged. Reservations may be made up to Sunday, Dec. 3 wth Mrs. Anita Boulanger or, Mrs. Claudette Armstrong. In charge of arrangements is Mrs. Angel Pratt. OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL JUVER Masses tor the vigil of the feast of the Immaculate Conception will be celebrated at 4 P.M. and 7 P.M; Masses.for the feast, Friday, Dec. 8, will be at 7 A.M 9 A.M., 12:15 P.M., and 4,5 and 7 P.M. Children of Mary will attend Mass at 5 Sunday night, Dec. 10. Installaton of officers, supper and a program including a guest speaker will follow in the church hall. The Holy Name Society will hold elections following 8 A.M. Mass Sunday, Dec. 10. NOTRE DAME, FALL JUVER The Council of Catholic Women will hold its Christmas party Monday night, Dec. 11.

Students Support Lettuce Boycott CLEVELAND (NC) - St. John College's administration agreed to stop serving non-union ice'berg. lettuce in the college. cafeteria here. . The administration notified its cafeteria supplier that no lettuce was to be served unless the firm could supply lettuce gt'own under United Farm Workers Union contracts. The union hasealled a boycott in support of its activities in California and Arizona.

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Compares Battle of Nations To Scorpions in Bottle

Clean Up Rome, Pope Urges

Before we leave the Synodal Documents' denunciation of war as a fundamental threat to the sacredness of life, there is one more aspect of modern warfare that needs to be given a specially searching look. This aspect is the close link between scientific research and war, a link the means of delivering ever more instant, deadly and irresistwhich virtually removes all ible knock-out blows were simlimits to the potential dam" ply not available. Getting armies age war can accomplish.' It has always been part of the Christian attempt to grapple with the problem of war to de-

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clare that the use of force must be proportionate to the threat that has to be checked. You use enough force, in a just war, to beat attack. You do not go on to devastate the aggressor's country, enslave the inhabitants, salt the fields and poison the wells. Of course, only defensive wars are legitimate in any case, By definition, no nation can justly seek aggrandizement or resources or' territory by force. However, most wars are' declared by those who launch them to be defensive. The important point in Christian ethics is to limit force to very strict and definable ends to avoid unleashing of general, destructive violence. Indiscriminate War But it is precisely this limited character that the nuclear race makes impossible. Nuclear war is of its nature indiscriminate since not only must civilians receive lethal doses of radioactivity. So will children and grandchildren. The most innocent of all bystanders,the yet-unborn, are put at risk. This facet of nuclear war's lack of limits we all know. But there is another which is perhaps less obvious. Yet, as Russia and America look for ways to stabilize their nuclear competition, this factor of limitlessness may be the most dangerous of all. Moderri science, alIied to' the technology of war, imposes no upper limit on the amount of destruction that c~h in fact be carried out. Until man unleashed the power in the nucleus of the atom and brought down to earth the equivalent of the massive and wholly lethal release of energy at the core of the sun, there were degrees of damage beyond which armed forces couldnot go. High explosives, however lethal, simply did not have the quality of blasting future genes and poisoning the earth with' radioactivity. Moreover, until the age of supersonic flight and the missile,

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by ship across oceans drastically limited the extent of their capacity for physical damage. Even getting a British Expeditionary Force to France in the early days of World War I stretched the then-existing systems drastically and the army arrived in Europe was hardly ready to deliver hammer blows of general destructiveness. Today all these physical limits to damage are overturned. The amount of nuclear fusion power. now available in world's stock piles of hydrogen bombs can already annihilate the planet. It does not matter which side delivers the first blow. Like Scorpions Both have enough submarines and missiles in reserve for an equally lethal second attack. Like two scorpions in a bottle, each can sting the other-and the planet-to death. To argue for more force, more power, more "punch" in the nuclear arsenal is simply a 'lunatic argument for blowing up the planet three or five or seven times over. We all know'that once will suffice. For the same reason, billions invested in further "improvements" of delivery systems have the same lunatic and limitless character. However superior the Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles (MIRVS) may be, however many of these hydra-headed hydrogen missiles each side may invent and invest in, the deadlock is the same. Submarine fleets on both sides, all atomically and multiply armed, mean that there can be no single knock-out blow. Moreover, such is the essential openness of all scientific knowledge that if either side thinks of a new gadget: the other side, by following exactly similar calculations and procedures, will reach it too. This is the whole history of the arms race. Each side can invent the, other's secrets. Therefore, each new invention is simply a stimulus to counter-invention and continued insecurity at an ever higher level of potential destruction. Opposite Signs At present,. the governments Qf both the Soviet Union and the United States are showing some welcome signs of realizing that upward competition is without limit and never reaches "the ultimate deterrent." Unhappily, other signs point in the opposite direction, particularly the American decision to try to increase the power of MIRVS, intensify submarine development and generally add new techniques, according to a recent New York Times estimate, threaten an arms budget of $100 billion a year. And to what end? Every gadget will be repeated in Russia. The scorpions may be larger, their stings more lethal. But they cannot get out of the "bottle" of a shared biosphere which their death struggles can bring to an end.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Romans should show their love for Rome, Pope Paul VI said, by cleaning up its shanty-towns and removing the 'manifest filth of vice and pornography". The Pope's remarks were contained in a brief Sunday noontime Angelus t: .•k from his window to crowds below in Saint Peter's Square. "We are grateful to government authorities and Romans ... who wash from the civic and sacred face of Rome every vestige of filth", the Pope declared. Stating that he "encouraged authorities and Romans in their arduous and noble efforts" to clean up Rome, the Pope listed three specific problems which give Rome a dirty face: "The miserable living quarters on the periphery of Rome; the manifest filth of vice and pornography; and the continuing lack of indispensible facilities. " Housing in Rome has been drastically short for decades, except for the affluent. Many poor Italians who come to Rome for work live in lean-tos propped against the arch of an aqueduct or in muddy fields along railroad tracks. Two years ago, at the o,-ening of the new audience hall ,In the Vatican, Pope Paul pledged to the city of Rome he would build a new housing complex in Rome for families of working men. Although the Pope admitted this was a meager contribution to the alleviation of the housing prob· lem, this pledge is near realization.

Anti-Obscenity.Law Ruled Invalid

JESUIT AT WORK IN TAIWAN: The man in the wheelchair is not a hospital patient, but a Jesuit priest who works as a psycho-social rehabilitation specialist in Veteran's General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Father Robert J. Ronald of Martinez, Calif., puts in a six day work week and then says two parish Masses on Sundays. NC Photo.

Centralize Efforts ,

National Federation of Spiritual Directors Formed

SAINT MEINRAD (NC)-Regional seminary director groups have announced the formation of the National Federation of Spiritual Directors in order to centralb~ their common efforts. The movement for such a national organization' was begun during the firs~. Nation~l Conference of Spmtual Directors held ?t Sai?t M~inrad Seminary here In Indiana In June, 197.1. The movement later received encouragement from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops during their 1971 autumn meeting. One of the purposes of the new federation is to act as a clearinghouse for programs that' promote priestly formation. It would also serve as a liaison with the American bishops.

The federation is expected to provide more frequent communication among seminaries and schools of theology in order to avoid duplications of efforts. It will unite nationally the efforts of more than 250 seminary vocation directors. The directors will be provided with a profile of present seminary students from the new federation which will express to the directors what it feels are the spiritual needs of candidates to the priesthood. Father Paul J. Witney, spiritual director of St. John Vianney Seminary, East Aurora, N.Y., will act as temporary chairman of the new federation until elections are held next Summer at the seminary.

NEWARK (NC) - A threejudge federal court here has ruled that New Jersey's new antiobscenity law is unconstitutional. The ruling came in the case of an Irvington, N.J., "art theater" operator who had filed suit claiming that the state w~s harassing him. He was arrested twice recently. The law under which he was arrested was revised by the state legislature last February. ~n the definition of obscenity the lawmakers dropped the phras~ that required prosecutors to prove that allegedly obscene mlj.terild was "without redeeming social value." In its ruling Nov 20, the court here ruled that this went beyond U.S. Supreme Court decisions on defining obscene material. While they held the state law w4ls invalid, the judges did not i issue an injunction forbidding i~s enforcement. Arrests ~ay s~ill be made when material fitting the Supreme Court requirements is' involved.

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KNOW YOUR FAITH

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The Family

the significant place the family has in a person's religious development as a Catholic. On a psychological level experience and scientific research reveal the extraordinary formative importance of the first few years of a child's life. While growth remains possible as long as a persoh lives, basic personality traits are already firmly shaped" before a child ..begins kindergarten. Presumably the greatest religious inBy fluence during these early years is the quality of faith "and love FR. CARL ,J. experienced in his. home life. I From ,the perspective of PFEIFER, S.J: Christian knowledge of God and his relationship with men the ~ significance of the family is known and livecr-Witnnundreds- equally evident. Christians speak of persons who professed to be of God as "father," of Mary the atheists. But' in his long experi- mother of Jesus as their ence only those from atheistic "mother." Jesus. is known as homes responded consistently GO?'S "Son," ~nd" we are d~; and deeply as atheists. sCflbed as c1uldren of God, His experience with atheists' "sons of God." As children of finds an echo in recent research God, our Father, we are recogon the effects of Christian edu- nized as "brothers and sisters" cation. In general the findings in Christ. . / indicate that the most significant The SCflptures and Judeaofactor in Christian education is Christian tradition describe God, the family. 'In a very profound the. comm~nity .of b~lievers, and sense one might argue that ulti- t~elr relationship Wlt~ .God and mately it's all in the family as WI~ each other In familiar ter~s. far as effective, long-lasting ef- ~vldently deeply felt apprecI~ fects of religious education are tlon and knowledge of God In concerned. these terms is not unrelated to Parochial schools have an im- the experience of family life in portant contribution. CCD and one's own home. similar catechetical programs for . Jewi~~ View. " those not attending Catholic JeWish religIOUS educators schools have an equally valuable have for centuries recognized the contribution. So does the liturgy ce~~ality of family life in the and parish life in general. But religiOUS d~velopment of. young their contribution would seem and old alike. For a vaflety of normally to influence people's reasons Catholic catechesis in redeeply held moral values and cent centuries has. centered attitudes only when they com- rather in" the school-although "plement what is acquired in the the vital role of the home was genuinely Christian home. at least verbally maintained. Still Home Life today in many parishes considerIt is not difficult to appreciate Turn to Page Eighteen "I never ,met a died-in-thewool atheist who had not gr:r·....n up in a military atheistic home," said Ignace :Lepp. ~is observation arose out of his reflection on several decades of personal experience as a committed atheist and influential communist leader. He admitted that he had

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Two'Sides' To .Every Family "I have come to set a man at odds with his father, a daughter with her mother, a daughter-inlaw with her mother-in-law; in short to make a man's enemies those of his own household" (Mt. 10,35f.).

FR... QUENTIN QUESNELL, S.J."

One line of statements about the family in the New Testament is strongly negative. According to that HIle of thinking, the family is in ?anger and a threat to the persop who would be a real Christian; Along that line. for instance, is Jesus' statement that he has co'me to bring, not peace, but division, and to set family

members at odds with one another. Along this same line are the warnings Jesus gives his followers against family connections. He says that those who love father and mother more than they QO him are not worthy of him. He tells the man who wants to follow him, but who asks permission first to go and bury his father: "Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead." in this same sense, he offers_everlasting life to' those who have given up home, brothers, sisters, father or mother, wife or children or property for his sake. GOllpels This first line of thought is dramatically underscored in one gospel's comment on Jesus' own life: "Neither did his own brothers have much confidence in him" (In. 7,5). More strongly still, perhaps, the incident in Mark 3,21ff: "His own family came to take charge of him, Turn to Page Seventeen

By DR. LAWRENCE L()SONCY

Ahraham Maslow is one of several writers and teachers W]lO have come to be kl)own ~IS "learning theorists." Other nalilles in this group include John Dewey, Malcolm Knowles, Sydney' Simon, Skinner,' Bruner, Goldman, and Havinghurst, to name but some of the bettEir know theorists. The learning theorist is one who observes people and then through research, studY, reflet:tiO:I1, and careful discussion bE!gins to explain how he thinks hwnan beings learn. Most educational theory, even .as long ago as the times of Soctatell, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, PlotiO'l.ls, Aquinas, and Freud has been developed through this prc~ess. ' Maslow's theory includes all1 analysis of the needs which we ' all experience as "humans. By constructing a pyramid of these needs Maslow has opened the door to a better understanding " of the importance of family. In nei::her case, of course, are we being told something we did not alfEiac1y know. We always knew that adUlt:; need to diagnose their educational needs before deciding what educational activity to: putslle. We also knew that the family is important, indeed crucial. to the healthy and happy (jevelop-" ment of the young ~aslpw':l pyramid of needs, however, be· gins to explain why this is so. His pyramid goes like this: I Self:Expression I I Self-Esteem I. I Love I I "Security I I J)hysiological and Physical I The pyramid rises from funda·, "meIlltal needs common to every human being. We all have bodily needs of food, water, rest, a plac.e to sleep, shelter, protection from the elements,' and So forth. Security We also all have a need for security. We all need to receivEi love as well as to give iove. We all J:leed self-esteem, and we all need to express ourselves and to be (:reative. The interesting, indeed intriguing, aspect of Mas'low's pyramid is the fact that these :needs are related. For example, "higher needs cannot be satisfied until needs below it on the pyramid have been met. A starving man (physiological need) cannot feel secure A homeless child (security need) cannot feel loved. A rejected child (love need) does not havE~ much self-esteem. A person with inferiority complexes .(self -esteem need) is not crea~ive or expressive. The pyramid is also accurate in reverse. For example, a person who is denied self-expression begins to weaken in self-esteem' when people find their self~ estel~m or self-concept to be wea]\(ening, they find love hard to a·ccept, understand, or returil; when. love begins to weaken, people feel insecure; and when people become insecure they be-

SELF-ESTEEM

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PYRAMID OF NEEDS: "Maslow's pyramid . rises from fundamental needs common to every human being." NC.Sketch. come aggressive, destructive, careless, sloppy, and generally disruptive of their physical surroundings. This is why behavioral scientists who see a" world at war or a city decaying begin to look for the reasons in lack of security, lack of "love, lack of dignity, and lack of affection. The Family We have always held marriage

and family in high regard. For religious people, family is not only a gieat value,but it is also divinely sanctioned..Civil society and law see family as an essen. tial component of any larger society. . Using the needs pyramid of Maslow, we can see why this is so. Without a family, how could Turn to Page Seventeen

Lilurg;y and Community

The wide-eyed, inner-city or institutes. the day's events young girl ran up to the priest were high on sensitivity, panels in charge of her summer vaca- on community, how to build it, tion bible school and enthusias- how to discover it, how to' ex" tically exclaimed: "Father, you perience it." know what I learned this week? Community That God is my Father, Jesus is Nailing down exactly what my Savior, and everyone is my proponents mean by the term brother and sister." community is quite another matShe apparently had "experi- ter. It often seems to be an eluenced community" duril)g these . sive, almost Utopian, generally' sessions, and liked it. Accoroing emotional goal and occasionally some person appears more anI~~"~;~.• ": xious to talk about community than to work hard at achieving By it. A Chicago group, however, FR. JOSEPH M.; de~ribes the ideal they had be" fore them as they set up a comCHAMPLIN , munal type living arra~gement: "A commu~ity caring for each and sharing with all." One can not quarrel with such nobleness to Father George Fitzgerald in and in fact, could easily" hold his new book; "Communes: Their that as the model of what a Goals, Hopes, Problems," many Christian community, a Catholic others, older, are desperately parish, a worshiping congregaseeking for what our little one tion should be. foun<tso easily in a few days. Citizens in Fulton and visitors He writes: "The search for to our fair city may not discuss community is the obsession of or understand the theory of comour day. Someone said commu- munity, but they surely put it nity theorists are the arm-chair "into practice over Cracker Barphilosophers of modern Amer- rel Fair Weekend: Thill moneyica." Talk in the past decade making event raises around among relgious groups, Fitzger- $30,000 every year for the local ald notes, constantly turns to the hospital and involves everybody subjects of "team ministry, colin the' area-and I mean everylegiality, sharing" decisions, wor- body. Young children staff a shiping communities, living com- penny 'candy "booth, retirees munities. Whenever college chap- donate home-canned preserves, lains came together for seminars Tum to PaBe ~ighteen

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The Family Continued from Page Sixteen children receive security and love? Without family structure, where would any of us receive our identity? Without family, how would Wt: know someone cares about us? Without family, how could we learn how to express ourselves, how to get along without others, how to find our place in life? Eugene Kennedy has said several times in public that Church and family are two unique realities in human experience. Although they are related, they are not the same. They are the only two human realities of which we can say that "when we have to go there, they have to let us in." Volumes have been written concerning both family and Church, and volumes will continue to be written about them. This is because relationships within the family community enable us to understand our filial relationship with God, which is itself the basic source of a happy family life.

Only the rare one among visitors to London in recent months can have failed to try to get into the British Museum's exhibit of articles found 50 years ago in the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen. The crowds seeking admission were so great that even on rainy days hundreds to a complex and fascinating . of people stood in line, out in subject. Howard Carter was far from the open, for five or six being a brilliant stylist. He was hours or more. The wait was worthwhile, for the tomb treasures are unique. Tutankhamen died some 3,300

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years ago. He was probably 18 or 19 years old at the time of his death, and his reign had been brief. He was buried in the Valley of the Kings, hundreds of miles up the Nile from Cairo. The tombs of other Egyptian kings were found and pillaged long since, but Tutankhamen's resting place remained unknown until 1922. ,In that year, two Englishmen, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon saw their persistent efforts crowned with success. Carter had theorized as to the location of Tutankhamen's tomb; and when he was given the opportunity of digging at his chosen spot, he was proved to be right. Certain Peculiarities He described the project and its results in three books, published in 1923, 1927, and 1933 respectively. The contents of all. three have now been brought together in a single, copiously illustrated volume entitled The Tomb of Tutankhaman (Dutton, 201 Park Ave. S., New York, N. Y. 10003. $10.95). The reader would do well to remember that different parts of the present work were written at different times: the first, for example, a year after the original . discovery but some years before exploration of the tomb was completed. This accounts for certain p~culiarities, such as the impression given the reader of the first section that half a century later the filII yield of the tomb is not yet known, although it has been known for about four decades. Prosy Lectures For this reason, it might be advisable to begin with another book, Tutankhamun: The Golden Monarch (McKay, 750 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. $4.95.) [The Variant spelling "Tutankhamun" is permissible, and is used by the British Museum in its publicity and publications about the current exhibit.) Michael Carter gives a brief, quite clear account of Howard Carter's labors and achievement, together with such facts about Tutankhamen and his reign as are available. His style can sometimes be atrocious, and he is guilty of all too many mangled sentences. A further drawback· is the fac~ that his book has no illustrations whatever. None the less it is a useful introduction

by no means averse to repetition. And he could not resist inserting prosy lectures in his text. He may readily be forgiven such deficiencies ~n view of his supplying an eyewitness account of an unparalleled feat. Behind the Rubble It was known that the rulers of Egypt were given an elaborate burial. The monarchs themselves commissioned their own tombs and saw to their preparation. Even his sarcophagus was made during a ruler's lifetime. Upon his death, his remains were mummified, a process which took some 70 <;lays. And when these were ·borne to the burial place, a fabulous quantity of goods accompanied them, to be sealed away forever. But not forever, as it turned out. In some instances, grave robbers got to work soon after a sovereign has been interred in the isolated, lonely and forbidding Valley of the Kings. In other cases, the depredation carne later. But come it did, presumably without exception. Howard Carter located Tutankhamen's rock tomb, hidden in sandy earth. Its entry was a passageway deliberately filled with rubble. Had this been undisturbed dow'n the centuries? No. It quickly became evident that .grave robber,s had at some time got in, after which the tomb had been reclosed. Was Carter's exertion in vain? The Treasure When the rubble was cleared away, a door carne in sight. Carter cut a hole in it. Shining a light through the opening, he saw a vast horde of treasure. This was situated in what was identified as an anteroom to the tomb proper. In addition, there were two other chambers: one an annex to the anteroom, the other a treasury just off the tomb itself. In all these places were many hundreds of objects, some of exquisite beauty. They included wooden and metal chests, alabaster lamps and vases, jewelry, religious emblems, weapons, chariots, beds, chairs, royal insignia, robes, flowers, food and drink. All were buried with the king to facilitate his passage through the netherworld' to a blissful eternity. The like of many of them had never been unearthed before. The greatest wonders were in the tomb proper. When its door of masonry was breached, a gilt shrine was revealed, 17 feet long, 11 feet wide, nine feet high. Taken apart, this was seen to enclose another gilt shrine, and this in turn enclosed two more. Mask of Gold With the last of these removed, Carter came upon the ston~ sarcophagus, superbly carved. Within it were three successive coffins. The innermost, six feet long, was of solid gold. It contained Tutankhamen's -mummified body, over the face and chest of which

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ITomb of Tutankhamen l Relates Unparalleled Feat

GROWING UP: "As we grow out of childhood, God begins to call us to make up our own minds about things." A freckI~d-faced boy weighs a decision. NC Photo.

Two Sides To Every Family Continued from Page Sixteen saying 'he is out of his mind,''' When Jesus hears that his family is waiting to talk to him, he answers: "Who ;is my mother and my brothers? Whoever does the will of God is brother and sister and mother to me," Still, we all know there is another whole line of New Testament comments that seem to run in quite the contrary direction. Along this second line, Jesus says for instance, that it is God's plan that a man cling to his wife and "let no man separate what God has joined." Epistles In' the letters of the apostles, husbands should love their wives as Christ loves the church; wives should love their husbands and children; children should honor and obey their parents; and parents b~ careful not to nag and anger their children. This second, favorable line is behind the teaching that "if anyone does not provide for his own relatives, and especially for members of his own family, he has denied the faith; he is worse than an unbeliever" (I Tim. 5,8). It is also behind the admonitions

was a gold mask of dazzling magnificence. Car~~r had done something unprecedented, something of inestimable value in several fields: e.g., history, archaeology, Egyptology, art. And to read about it even now, and even in Carter's somewhat clotted pages, is thrilling. As has been noted, the illustrations are numerous, and some of those in color are first rate. Really to appreciate and enjoy the array of incomparably precious objects, one has to see the full display as found only in the Cairo Museum. But more than a hint is conveyed by the photographs.

that "the younger widows marry, have children, keep house" (,I Tim~ 5,14); that a bishop be married (only once) and be O'a good manager of his own household, keeping his children under control" (I Tim. 3,2-5); that "a wife does not belong to herself, but to her husband; and a husban~ does not belong to himself, but to his wife" (I Cor. 7,4). The two lines of thought sound very different. Actually, both reflect one basic reality: the strong influence of family memhers on each other. More than anything else on earth, the family into which we are born makes us who we are. Our relationships with them introduce us into the human race. From our experiences with them, we get our most basic opinions about ourselves and about others. From watching and listening to them, we soak up our most deep-seated values, our ideals, our fundamental hopes and fears. Growing Up . As we grow out of childhood, God begins to call us to make up our own minds about things He may call us to leave our old selves behind, to try to become better than we are. Leaving our old selves behind may involve leaving behind some of the ideas we got from our families. Breakjng with old standards of judging and acting may, turn out to be as hard as cutting off a hand or plucking out our own eyes. It might even involve leaving behind the family from which our old self came. To the extent that a family is a school of Christ, the people of God in miniature, it deserves all the beautiful things the Bible or anyone else can say in its praise. But most families, like most people, have at least two sides to them. The Bible has to consider them from both.

Thought of Death Stressed by Pope VATICAN CITY (NC) - The thought of death and immortality provides Christians )vith a true set of values, Pope Paul told thousands gathered for his noonday blessing Nov. I, a holiday as well as a holy day in Italy. Mindful that the following day, the Feast of All Souls,is also a special holiday in Italy, the Pope said that the thought of saints and those departed makes us think of "our personal immortality," This in turn should illustrate, the Pope said, how influential is the thought of immortality in "establishing a scale of values" in this world. Values that do not lead us to immortality, though they may be beautiful and precious, are fleeting and ephemeral, he continued. Faith in our immortality, he said, prevents us from "falling into the abyss of doubt and despair."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River- Thur~ Nov. 30,-1972

Continued from Pa~e' Sixteen erably more practic~1 concern about religious education focuses .on the Catholic school, the CCD program, the religi()n textbooks, teacher training, and audio-visual materials than on the family.

'Guest Worker' Euphemism' For Slavery' in Europe

There ~as an interesting article in the New York Times recently by Flora Lewis on the relationship between the Dutch and the Spanish, Turkish and North African immigrants who:-have become "guest workers" in Holland.

The article should have been read by all those intellectual ideologues who hold up the European countri'es as models of social equality to b.e imitated by the United States. For "guest workers" in countries such as Holland,' Sweden,

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Germany, and Switzerland is simply a nice word for "slave"; as one Dutch' observer who had watched a recruiting session in Turkey point(;ld out, such sessions are for all practical pur. poses slave markets. Countries like Holland and Switzerland , have become _so completely middle class that· they have had to import a proletariat _from outside the country. While this proletariat is paid for its work, it has none of the rights of citizens, not even the right to bring .its families along. Its members are no.t eligibl~ for citizenship, and they are not particularly welcomed by the natives-as was made clear in a

Priests -. Asked To Pray More HOUSTON (NC) - The GaIl veston-Houston diocesan' Senate of Priests has' urged priests "to , a renewed dedication to prayer." In a statementoit prayer, the senate said that "we priests today have many di~ferences and we disagree among ourselves about many issues,:but_ whether traditional or liberal, young or old, we do share a common belief in Jesus Christ: as the 'Word made flesh' (John 1;' 14), the Son of God, after whom we pattern our lives." Jesus prayed both alone and with others, the statement said. "If Jesus prayed, how much more do we need to pray, both alone and with others? "As for private prayer, we can do more than encoiJrage. As for the liturgy of the Eucharist, we urge a renewal of prayerfulness in preparing for and celebrating it with your people so that they will see that we consider it a special form of prayer." -

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priests living together in rectories take time to pray together, that they participate in the weekly p~riods' of shared prayer which th~ senate will initiate soon through its prayer and retreat cOlJlmittee, and that they continue -to lead "the faithful in our parishes to a deepened life of union with God through various kinds of prayer groups."

All of these religious education agents are important and deserving of concern andattention. But altogether they are not as significant a force in Christian education as the family. While continuing to devote time, energy, personnel and money to improving formal education, more religious educators are investing even more resources in aiding parents to fulfill more effectively their irreplaceable role in religious education.

recent riot when a Turk bought a home in an'on-Turkish neighborhood (a riot, by the way, not a bit different from those on the S?uth Side of Chicago). Oppression of Minorities Ms. Lewis gave a _very sympathetic account -of the problems of contact between strange cultures and the difficulties of assimilation versus cultural pluralism. Unquestionably all her observations were true. But, in fict, the guest workers in Holland and other countries are in about the same social -position as were blacks in Mississippi 15 or 20 years ago and the _New York Times was hardly trying to understand sympathetically the Mississippi viewpoint. The reason for that of course is easy. In the world view of official liberalism the Dutch are, "good guys," enlightened progressive socialists, and Mississip. pians are "bad guys" with red necks and uncouth accents. Oppression of minorities is bad both in Holland and in Mississippi, whether it is done by sophisticated Dutch or poor white trash. But I wish that the official wiSe men of our land would stop pointing to the European countries as practicing social' equality after which we should model ourselves. Even the United Kingdom is as racist as the worst part of the deep South. Its refusal to accept Asians' who hold British . passports ,(and hence are - citi: zens) would have made this clear -if the treatment of West Indians and Asians in Great Britain had not already proved it. American Pluralism On the contrary, if the European nations are interested in solving their guest worker prQ.blem, they might just possibly w.ant to consult with us. We had large numbers of guest workers once too; they were called "Krauts" and "Shanty Irish" 'and "Dagos" and '''Honkies'! and "Pollacks." Within five years they could call themselves Americans. All they had to do was pledge adherence to certain basic principles of political democracy and they were given the same civic rights as Americans whose families' had been here for generations.. They did not have to give up their own cultures; indeed, until 1907 they didn't even have to' speak English. ' It was one of the great accomplishments of human historythough not one which should blind us to our failures with regard to non whites. But it is not to be expected that the Europeans should look to us for guidance in coping with cuftural pluralism. They surely hear nothing from our intellectuals or journalists about the accomplishment. The relative success' of Ameriean pluralism is not worth studying or understanding. It is as if any American accomplishment is put down with a "How could it possibly be worth anything,"

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"SNOWSHOE PRIEST": This is a statue of Bishop Ftederic Baraga, the" "~nowshoe priest" of Michigan's Upper P~ninsula. It sands, on a red rock bluff at the·southern end I ofl Keweenaw Bay.' T1:le bi~hops of the United States have as~ed Pope Paul "to proceed expeditiously" on.Bishop Baraga's beatification and canonization. NC Photo. !

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Liturgy and Community

<j:ontinued from Page Sjxteen men barbecue chickE\n, cO?k hot dogs and pbur ~eer, women sell cakes and pies, local mJsicians entertain. . If you don't I worYil:, you do spend, walk:around and meet people you have mi~5,ed since the previous year. I Fall River ' ' , ~eminarians who waited on table during the Fall River pribst's retreat this September at Cahedral Camp in East FreetO~Il, Massachusetts were irrtI pre~:5ed, they told me, by the. great community spirit among thel elergy. The men, of different temperaments,' backages, gto~nds, still laughed and ,talked, wa~ked and prayed, plaYe9 1ind listened - together. These. stuI dents, who often hear rumors abo~t alienation in rectories and conrlicts between priests" sa\f a different picture throughout tho~e beautiful days and must have been encouraged by it. qUir own parishioners at Holy Family, at least 300 of them tast:ed community a few Sundays back when we gathered for an aft~rnoon parish picnic. Families brought their own food and utensils.1 We supplied the beverages as ~. way of saying "than~ you" to ~:Il for a year of geperous cbll~:tions and loyal volunteers. T~,ere were prizes galote, !nc!u1i:n,,!; a dinner for two ~n one of the region's better restaurants, and igames for every age bracket. High light of the day was an egg~rowing contest with, the pastpr a loser and a soiled pair of pants to prove his defeat. i Liturgy What do these remarks' have to d9 with worship? A great deal, actually. Vatican II states: "Litflrgical services are not private, functions, but celebrations of the Church, which is the 'sactiament of unity,' namely, the holyi people united and ordered und~r their bishops.'" The document maintains, as a consebU~iness

quence, that public worship,liturgical celebrations, "pertain to the whole body of the Church; they manifest it and have effects upon it ..." The closer -the community; the better the liturgy. Priests at that magnificent camp setting concelebrated with deeper meaning because before they came to the altar they were at once with each other. Citizens in Fulton who cared for each and shared with all at the fair should find it easier to worship a common Father at next winter's ecumenical Lenten services. Parishioners at Holy Family will, we hope, better pray together at Sunday Mass after having picnicked together in the local park. But, a word of caution: The liturgy expresses cvmmunity, true, but it also builds it. Sometimes the congregation before Mass leaves much to be desired, yet- afterwards walks out different, more united. And a 'second word of warning: the worshiping community is united not necessarily by age or interest ,or attitude, but by a common faith in Jesus Christ and a belief in his presence at the Eucharist. The latter should enable us to r~ise above differences in the former.

It is one thing to remind parents of their primary responsibility for the religious education of their children through the qual· ity of Christian life at home. Yet it is quite another thing to discover creative, effective ways of assisting parents in fulfiliing that responsibility. If parents have a responsibility within .the Christian community, they have a right to the aid of that commu'nity-particularly when the average parent has- grown up thinking that the parochial school, priests or sisters were much more capable religi9us educators than they themselves as p,rents.

In view of the clear te,ching 'of the ~econd Vatican Cpuncil (Christian Education, No.3) and the General Catechetical Direc'tory (No 78, .19, 115, 121) it would appear that a priority question to be faced by those responsible for religious education planning in dioceses and '-parishes is this: "What are we doing to help parents better fuI, fill. their responsibility as the primary religious educators of their children?"

Emphatic 'No' STOCKHOLM (NC) - An effort to pass legislation that would have created state brothels fell fiat on its face in the Swedish parliament. The pr()posal was defeated 303 to 5.

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SCHOOLBOY SPORTS IN THE DIOCESE By PETER J. BARTEK Norton Hi'" Coach

Three Teams Share Mythical Diocesan Football Crown Dartmouth, North Attleboro and Wareham share the mythical Fall River Diocesan championship for the 1972 football campaign with identical 8-1 records. Wareham and North also won their respective league's title while Dartmouth finished second in its 'pennant chase with Msgr. watched with exuberance as his Coyle-Bishop Cassidy High charges battled to a 42-26 of Taunton. The diocesan Thanksgiving Day victory over champs did not meet ~ead on during the season. Perhaps, some day, the state playoff system will be expanded to include regional 'championship games. But, for now, we will have to be content with "paper" titleists. ' Wareham, playing in Division, III of the Southeastern Massachusetts Conference, took first place honors in the circuit with a 5-0 mark. The Vikings lone set back came in the first contest of the season 6-0 against Seekonk, a Division II team. Coach Jim Lanagan, in his second year, at the Wareham helm,

rival Bourne to climax the successful season. The Viking, number one this year, finished in the 22nd spot a year ago with a 2-6 record.

North, with a little help from its friends at King Philip and Stoughton, shares the Hockomock League championship with Stoughton. While the' powerful Red Rocketeers were thrashing arch rival Attleboro last Thursday morning 28-0, the Regionals from Wrentham were in the process of handing defending champion Franklin its second setback of the Fall.

New Loop Contributes to Shift in Top Ten Primarily, due to the formaAs a result of Stoughton's holiday victory over Canton, tion of the Southeastern ConferNorth and Stoughton share the ence .the top ten is' almost comcrown. Coach Bob Guthrie's club pletely different this year. Only lost only to Franklin while the three of last' year's elite are Black Knight's defeat came at among the group this season. Atthe hands of North. The Red and tleboro finished second in 1971, White were 3-6 a year ago and New Bedford fourth and Fairin 20th place in the final di- haven sixth. Lawrence High of Falmouth ocesan standings. Dartmouth, a 26-22 loser to ' and the Capeway Conference Coyle in the season's opener, found the going tougher this moved from 14th to first in the Fall and tumbled from the num1972 standings. Coach Carlin ber one spot to 21st. Old RochesLynch's Indians were never able Ster of Mattapoisett played an into make up the ground lost on dependent schedule last Fall endopening day as Coyle rolled to a ing the campaign with a 7-2 7-0 Division I record and the record good for second place. The Bull Dogs are listed along championship. Coyle under mentor Paul Ther- with Falmouth with a 2-6-1 rien was defeated by non-league mark this season. As last year there were no unopponen~s New B,edford and Durfee High of Fall River. The War- defeated teams among the 28 riors 7-2 record is good for ,a competing within diocesan territorial limits. Only one club was fourth place finish. Fairhaven, Southeastern Mass. unable to win a game this Fall, Division II champion, finished in three went winless last. a fifth place tie with Nantucket In both 1971 and 1972, 15 of the Mayflower League. Both teams finished at or above the .500 mark and 13 below. Howclubs had 6-2-1 marks. Attleboro and Bishop Stang of ever, again mainly because of the Dartmouth tied for 7th with Mar- new circuit 9 of the 13 that tha's Vineyard finishing 9th. finished in the lower bracket Durfee and New Bedford round moved into the top division this season. out the top ten.

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Holy Cross Honor Student May Become Seventh Generation Rabbi in Family Marc Silver, a 20-year-old honor student at Holy Cross College, Worcester, could become th'e seventh generation rabbi in a family that retains an historic link to the modern state of • Israel. Silver, a junior history major from West Hartford, Conn., has been in Israel since July on a six-munth study grant by the Jacob Hiatt Institute of Brandeis University. It is. named for Jacob Hiatt of Worcester, presi- . ident of Rand Whitney Corporation, chairman of the board of trustees at Brandeis and a trustee and a member of the Presi· dent's Council of Holy Cross, the oldest Catholic liberal arts college in New England. Silver is the second Holy Cross ....student to receive the prestigious award in the last three years. Norman M. Cohen, who graduated ·last June from HC, began rabbinical studies this fall at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio. After having received a "glowing report on the Hiatt Institute program" from Cohen, Silver said he's "determined to see if the rabbinate is for me." The institute is in Jerusalem under Brandeis' direction. Buried in Jerusalem Marc's great-uncle, the late Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, was a decisive Amer· ican Zionist who pleaded the cause of P,alestine in 1947 before the United Nations. His greatgrandfather, Rabbi Moses Silver,

that I could be, the seventh generation rabbi," he added. At the Hiatt Institute, he is learning Hebrew and Judaic history and spends weeke~ds traveling all over Israel. "Israel will allow me a better understanding of Judaism in every form, making me more 'Jewishly' aware," he said. He said the program in Israel is a great contrast to his life at Holy Cross. "Being at HC has reaffirmed my own Judaism; otherwise my beliefs may have been taken for granted," he explained. "Tim,e and time again I had to descrbe and defend Judaism in class and to my friends. There was nothing abusive since people really wanted to know what Judaism was all about."

MARC D. SILVER a Tal~udic scholar and theologian, spent the last 25 years of his life in Palestine and lived to see the birth of the new state of Israel. He and his wife are . buried in Jerusalem on the sacred Mount of Olives. In addition, Ml!Ic's late grandfather, Rabbi Maxwell Silver, was a leader in the New York Jewish communty. Marc's father, Rabbi Harold S. Silver of West Hartford, is active today in the American Zionist movement in the United States. "If I become a rabbi, it would be strictly my decision," Silver emphasized. "I am proud of my family tradition. There are subtle pressures, however, in knowing

Meeting to ~mphasize Family Center of Christian Society

LONDON (NC) ...:. The impor- opportunity be taken to emphatance of the family as the cen- size its significance and value in ter of Christian society will be community life. Family life stressed at a national ecumeni- should be regarded as a challenge to enable people to live cal meeting in London Dec. 1. The theme of the meeting will and grQw together. "Any gathering called to witbe "The Family Today," and the four principal speakers will be ness to the importance of family Cardinal John Heenan of West- life should be supported by all minster, Anglican Archbishop who are concerned for the moral Michael Ramsey of Canterbury, , and stable well-being of the naDr. Irvonwy Morgan, moderator tion." Lord Longford said: "These of the Free Church Federal Council; and Lord Longford, a Catho- are critical times for the family. lic politician and leader of an The vast majority of the populaanti-pornography movement in tion still aspires to faithfulness in marriage. Love of children is Britain. "It is important that the meet- as strong as ever but powerful ing should be regarded as a spe- forces are ceaselessly proposing cifically ecumenical occasion," ideas of free love, sexual promissaid Cardinal Heenan. "The arch- cuity and exploitation of women, bishop, the moderator and my- which endanger the family's very self will be speaking officially of existence. "It is not enough to denounce the family as the center of Christian society. If this meeting is to evil. It needs good ideas to be worthwhile it is most impor- drive out bad ones." The Association of Jewish tant ":I(:t it should teach positive Women's organizations is supdoctrine. It would fail of it purGridiron Standings pose if it were regarded as a porting the aims of the meeting. '72 '71 School Record protest meeting and nothing 27 Norton 4-4-1 more." Archbishop Ramsey said: 16 6 Seekonk 4·5 "I am keen that the meeting 17 11 Barnstable 3·4-2, should present the family not in 18 6 Provincetown 3-4 19 6 Somerset 3-5-1 negative terms as being against 20 23 New Bedford Voke 2-5-2 this or that, but in positive terms 2-6-1 as an, adventure in' living for 21 5 Bishop ,Feehan 7 Perry 2-6-1 God, for one another and for 2 Old Rochester Avenue society." 2-6-1 1 Falmouth Dr. Morgan said: 24 26 Mansfield 2-7 TauntonMass. 'Critical Times' 25 14 Dighton-Rehoboth 1-7-1 1-7-1 20 Taunton "At a time when family life 822·2282 1-8 27 28 Diman is often regarded as of little 0-9 importance it is desirable that 28 6 Oliver Ames

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In Jerusalem he is also studying Israel's political, social and historical institutions. His parents say his letters indicates h,e likes the experience, although he likes Holy Cross, too. "I have nothing but admiration for everyone at Holy Cross," he said before leaving. "The Col· lege is everything I thought it would be."

Indonesia Presidtfnt Visits Pope Paul VATICAN CITY (NC) - President Suharto of Indonesia made an official visit to Pope Paul VI here Nov. 25, repaying the Pope's visit to Jakarta Dec. 3-4, 1970, at the end of the papal trip to the Far East and Oceania. President and Mrs. Suharto were in Rome Nov. 23 to 25. NC News asked Indonesia's ambassador to the Holy See, Mu.tahar Husein, what problems the Pope and the president woul1 discuss. "We he-ve no problems," the ambassador rePlied. "Relations between the Holy See and Indonesia are great. The (Indonesian) people are guaranteed freedom ofr~ligion and the Catholic community is both thriving and making invaluable to Indonesia contributions through its schools and marvelous hospitals."

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